description: A Christian relief worker in Taiwan, Vincent Saunders supplements his income by teaching English to a group of young girls and has an affair with one of them, a situation that forces him to leave in disgrace and accept the morally challenging offer of a businessman who would pay Saunders to marry a woman to assist her citizenship efforts. A first novel. 35,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Heaven Lake: A Novel
titlecomplete: Heaven Lake: A Novel
genres: Fiction, Religion, Asia, Adventure, Drama, China, Adult, Contemporary, Travel, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 816
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction
publisher: Scribner