The winner of Canada's Trillium Award, this first novel explores the lives of three young Chinese children coming of age in 1940s Vancouver, alongside their elders, who share in the hard times and heartbreak that lead ultimately to a new life. Reprin...
Kiam-Kim is three years old when he arrives by ship at Gold Mountain with his father and his grandmother, Poh-Poh, the Old One. It is 1926, and because of famine and civil war in China, they have left their village in Toishan province to become the n...