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Country Canada Pages 352 pp. Publisher Viking Press Genres Non-fiction, Memoir | 3.7/5 Goodreads Publication date October 1, 1999 Originally published 1 October 1999 ISBN 9780312284152 Subject Immigrant generations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback) Similar Wayson Choy books, Memoirs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood is a non-fiction memoir, written by Canadian writer Wayson Choy, first published in October 1999 by Viking Press. In the book, the author chronicles his experience growing up as an immigrant in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1940s and 1950s.
Awards and honours
Paper Shadows received shortlist honours for the 2000 "Vancouver City Book Award" and won the 2000 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction".
References
Paper Shadows Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA