Chinese Women: A Novel - Softcover

Shinebourne, Jan Lowe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845231511 ISBN 13: 9781845231514

Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd., 2010

Synopsis

Uniquely pairing Caribbean grievances with political Islam, this intriguing novel begins as a sad story of unrequited love but descends into the nightmare world of a stalker. Told through the eyes of Albert Aziz, a Guyanese Indian Muslim, the story opens with his boyhood memory of falling from a tree and being badly injured, after which he developed an obsessive attraction to a young Chinese girl, Alice Wong, who lived on the same sugar estate. Now, years later, Aziz lives in Canada and has become a highly paid engineer in the nuclear industry. Although he has a new life in a different country, Aziz still nurtures racial resentments about the way he was treated as a child on the sugar estate and has become a supporter of radical Islam. He also begins to fixate again on Alice and tracks her down. He finds that she is divorced and living in England and asks her to marry him. Though Aziz is telling the story, it is clear that Alice's apprehension is slowly mounting as she fears the violence that will occur if she turns him down.

About this title

About the Author:

Jan Lowe Shinebourne is the author of The Godmother and Other Stories, The Last English Plantation, and Timepiece.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1845231511
• ISBN 13: 9781845231514
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110