![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story actually starts in 1945, when Pao is visited by Gloria, a Jamaican woman who comes to Pao in Kingston's Chinatown after her sister's been badly beaten by a white sailor. It's an interesting book in which Pao's story plays out through all of the political, social and economic changes that occur in that 50-year period, taking the reader from the last decades of British colonialism through Jamaica's independence and its aftermath. Approximately fifty years elapse in this story, from Pao's arrival through the re-election of Prime Minister Michael Manley in 1989. The lovely island of Jamaica is the setting for this novel which centers around Yang Pao, a Chinese immigrant who landed there in 1938 at the age of 14 with his family after escaping civil war in China. ![]()
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