Dead Man’s Gold and Other Stories by Paul Yee (Epub)

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These ten original ghost stories dramatize the tumultuous history of 140 years of Chinese immigration to North America – from the poor village men who first cam searching for gold in the late 1850s to the new immigrants who arrived from Hong Kong in the wake of the Communist victory in China. As with the award-winning collection, Tales from Gold Mountain, Paul Yee’s stories are fiction by told in the style of the traditional folktales that were shared with fellow men in the bachelor halls or with children and grandchildren at family banquets. But they are also ghost stories, a popular Chinese narrative form.The characters in these stories are men and women, rich and poor, greedy and good, young and old – all Chinese immigrants struggling to make new lives for themselves in North America. Yet wherever they go, they are followed by reminders of their home country – the curse of a friend betrayed, the ghost of a faithful spouse, the spirit of a dead parent.Accompanied by eerie,evocative plates by award-winning illustrator Harvey Chan, these tales provide young readers with a New World mythology of immigrant stories.

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Editorial Reviews: Review …alternately tragic, ironic and gentle… (Horn Book, STARRED REVIEW 2002-09-01)His plain, beautiful words speak with brutal honesty… (Booklist, STARRED REVIEW 2002-09-01)Yee is mining gold and we are all richer for it. (Quill & Quire 2002-09-01) About the Author Paul Yee was born in Spalding, Saskatchewan, and grew up in Vancouver’s Chinatown. A former archivist, he now writes full time. His books have won many awards and honors, including the Governor General’s Award (Ghost Train), the Ruth Schwartz Award (Ghost Train and Roses Sing on New Snow), and the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award (Tales from Gold Mountain). He has won the Vancouver Book Award and been shortlisted for the BC Book Prize, and his books have been named to several lists, including NYPL Books for the Teen Age (Dead Man’s Gold), ALA Notables and Booklist’s Top Ten Historical Fiction. Most recently, Paul’s young adult novel Money Boy was named a Stonewall Honor Book and he won the Vicky Metcalf Award for a body of work. Paul lives in Toronto. Harvey Chan immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong as a teenager. He has won the Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award three times – with Paul Yee for Roses Sing on New Snow and Ghost Train, and with Celia Barker Lottridge for Music for the Tsar of the Sea by Celia Barker Lottridge. Harvey is currently living in Hong Kong.

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