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Download or read book A Long Stay in a Distant Land written by Chieh Chieng and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-03-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the untimely death of his mother, young Louis Lum, a fact-checker at a hot rod magazine, decides to leave his California home and go to Hong Kong to find a long-lost uncle and, with any luck, the roots of his family. A first novel. Reprint.
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