Desirable daughters
Subtitle: a novel
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: March 12, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780786885152
Subjects: Modern fiction; Literary; Fiction - General; Fiction; General; Fiction / Literary; Reading Group Guide
First sentence: In the mind's eye, a one-way procession of flickering oil lamps sways along the muddy shanko between rice paddies and flooded ponds, and finally disappears into a distant wall of impenetrable jungle.