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In 1994 Emily Prager adopted a 7-month-old baby in China. Almost five years later, she goes back with LuLu, now a little American girl, to spend three months in Wuhu, the town where her daughter was born in Anhui Province, Southern China, searching for clues to unlock the mystery of LuLu.Within a week of their arrival, NATO has bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and anti-American feeling is running high; Emily's is the only non-Chinese face on the streets but Lulu, as a native of the town, is sacrosanct. Mother, daughter and townspeople become involved in a relationship of warmth and complexity that stands politics and prejudice on its head. It is Lulu's joy and pride at having found them that people cannot get over. After all, this is the same town that threw her away.
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Emily Prager spent 4 years of her own childhood in Taiwan. The author of much praised novels, stories and essays collections, including A Visit from the Footbinder, In the Missionary Position and Roger Fishbite.
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"Prager writes like a dream, sows seeds of thought in the reader's mind with the subtle deftness of a thriller writer" * Daily Express * "Prager's prose sparkles" * Observer * "Combines memoir, travelogue, and philosophy. Enthusiastically recommended" * Library Journal * "Elegant and thoughtful" * Evening Standard *
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0099284162
- ISBN 13 9780099284161
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