Fixer Chao

Ong, Han

ISBN 10: 0374155755 / ISBN 13: 9780374155759

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001

About this Item

NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.Hard Cover w/ DJ. First Edition (stated), Signed and dated by the author on the title page (see images). Size 6.5 x 9.5 inches, 377 pp. Bound in black boards with gold titles, clean and solid with sharp edges, corners and spine. Pages are clean, no other names or remainder markings, not Ex-Library. Clipped DJ is clean with light edgewear, protected by Brodart archival mylar jacket. Book and DJ condition: Near Fine. Books are shipped quickly and securely packed in a box debut novel for Ong, a Filipino writer and playwright.

Seller Inventory # 6678

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fixer Chao
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374155755
• ISBN 13: 9780374155759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction
  • LGBT

About this title

Synopsis

A picaresque first novel about love, revenge, art, and Feng Shui.

When William Narciso Paulinha, a Filipino street hustler, meets Shem C, a disreputable and social-climbing writer embittered by his lack of success, the Feng Shui scam of the century is born. Under Shem C's guidance, Paulinha assumes the persona of Master Chao, a revered Feng Shui practitioner from Hong Kong. Distorting the Eastern concept of Feng Shui -- the mystical Chinese art of creating a harmonious environment, promising its adherents peace and prosperity -- to accommodate Western demands, they peddle their peculiar brand of this holistic philosophy among New York City's elite.As this latter-day confidence man cuts a swath through upper-crust society, his biting observations form a comic portrait of class resentment and revenge. An auspicious debut, Fixer Chao raises questions of race and privilege, character and identity, and of what it means to be Asian at the turn of the twenty-first century.

About the Author

Born and educated in the Philippines, Han Ong came to the United States as a teenager and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1997. He is the author of several critically acclaimed plays. Fixer Chao is his first novel.