Brian Leung

Winner of the 2002 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Chris Offutt.

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World Famous Love Acts

Eve Adamson

Nikki Moustaki

e A practical, non-emotional approach for men and women that covers what they need to know about practical single living (but might be too embarrassed to ask). Whether it's changing a furnace filter, doing laundry, or learning to travel on your own, this book tells readers what they need to know to get out into the world!

Not Another Feel Good Singles Book

A novel of rare grace and power, Lost Men is the story of a father and a son each confronting his past. Westen Chan was just eight years old when his Caucasian mother died and his father, Xin, sent him away to be raised by her relatives. Twenty years later, after a lifetime of estrangement, Westen receives an invitation from his father to travel with him to China—a prom-ise Xin once made when Westen was a child. So it is that two strangers—a father and a son—travel halfway around the world to a land that one of them knows intimately and the other has never seen. As they tour the country, the two men reveal themselves slowly and awkwardly: Westen’s history of failed relationships and his conflicted cultural identity; Xin’s regret at leaving his son and the terrible secret he’s kept too long. And in the end, their relationship may just hinge on the contents of a sealed letter written by Westen’s mother before her death—one that threatens to answer the lifelong question neither of them has dared to ask. Powerful, moving, and beautiful, Lost Men is a stunning literary novel that explores cultural and ethnic identity, the meaning of family, the exigencies of fate, and the lengths to which we will go to reconnect with those we fear we have lost. Brian Leung reveals both the intimate hearts of his characters and the telling details of place with equal and substantial grace.

A Novel

Lost Men

Teenage Ivy Simmons shocks her small town by daring to challenge hometown boy-hero, Jimmy Doggins, in a showdown election for the title of Junior Mr. Mayor. Does anyone win?

With A Cast Of Thousands!

Ivy Vs. Dogg

1927. Après quarante années d'absence, Adele Maine revient à Dire Draw, petite ville minière du Wyoming. Elle n'a jamais oublié les événements qui ont failli lui coûter la vie et l'ont obligée à quitter son mari sans un mot d'explication. Adele était alors venue rejoindre son frère dans l'Ouest américain, véritable eldorado pour des milliers d'hommes en quête de travail sur les lignes de chemin de fer ou dans les mines de charbon. Au coeur de cet univers hostile, elle s'était liée d'amitié avec un jeune Chinois victime, comme les siens, du racisme et du mépris des ouvriers blancs. Et puis, est arrivé ce terrible jour de 1885 où les haines ont explosé et où il lui a fallu choisir... Dans la lignée de Willa Cather et Annie Proulx, Brian Leung réussit le superbe portrait d'une femme libre. Son roman embrasse un vaste paysage de sentiments et d'émotions qui répond, tel un écho, à l'immensité des grands espaces où seuls le ciel et la terre semblent régner.

Seuls le ciel et la terre

Adele "Addie" Maine is returning to Dire, Wyoming, forty years after the deadly events that drove her away from her husband without a word. Years earlier, when Addie first heads West to stay with her brother Tommy, she is wary of the Chinese working alongside the white men in the local coal mines. But when Tommy falters at homesteading and the mine becomes their only path, Addie's eyes are opened through her association with one Chinese man in particular, Wing Lee—and a bond forms between them that is impossible and forbidden, even in a territory where nearly everyone is an immigrant. Together, Addie and Wing harbor a secret, and when racial tensions escalate to a combustion point, Addie will face a devastating choice between fighting for what is right . . . and survival. Take Me Home is a searing, redemptive novel that explores justice in a time of violence, and the sweeping landscape between friendship and love.

Take Me Home

“Take Me Home is a riveting novel of two heroic people attempting to transcend the prejudices of their time and place. . . . Skillful artistry and empathy.” —Ron Rash, author of Serena and One Foot in Eden “Leung’s writing is exquisite, deceptively plain, deeply felt and spiritually high, with dead-on depictions of the world as it is.” —San Francisco Chronicle From Brian Leung, author of Lost Men and World Famous Love Acts (winner of both the Asian American Literary Award and the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction) comes a story of forbidden friendship in an Old West mining town. Set amidst the racial tensions surrounding the Rock Springs Massacre, Take Me Home makes the desperate coal mine culture of Wyoming come alive. Readers of Annie Dillard and Annie Proulx will thrill for the latest book by this exciting voice in American literature.

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