Waxwings

by Jonathan Raban | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0330480502 Global Overview for this book
Registered by klaradyn of Praha, Praha Czech Republic on 11/6/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by klaradyn from Praha, Praha Czech Republic on Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Product description from amazon.co.uk: "At the turn of the millennium, two immigrants are drawn to the United States by their own versions of the American Dream. For Tom Janeway - a Hungarian-born English intellectual most at home with his books - it's the family he thought he'd never have. For Chick - an illegal alien newly escaped from a cargo container - it's the land of plenty he imagined back in China. But as the stock market hits a new high, anti-globalist riots break out in the streets, a terrorist is arrested and a child disappears, the two men's dreams collide in a way neither could have anticipated. Unjustly accused of a horrific crime, estranged from his wife and his beloved young son, Tom's life is rapidly unravelling. Chick, meanwhile, has a burgeoning business by day but no safe place to lay his bed at night. For both, the New World proves surprisingly full of old ways. Waxwings is a masterwork. Exquisitely written, moving, funny and hugely entertaining, it brilliantly captures the landscape and life of contemporary America, and it confirms Jonathan Raban as one of our very finest writers."

Released 14 yrs ago (8/20/2009 UTC) at Cape Town City Hall, Darling St in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa

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At the symphony concert in the City Hall tonight.

My book 6 for the August One Word release challenge.

Journal Entry 3 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at Malmesbury, Western Cape South Africa on Saturday, August 31, 2013
How lovely to take part in this experience.

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