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THE THIRD SON
A story of yearning, love, and freedom set in post-war occupied Taiwan and the dawn of the American space age.
In the middle of a terrifying air raid in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Saburo, the least favored son of a Taiwanese politician, runs through a peach field for cover. It’s there that he collides with Yoshiko, whose descriptions of her loving family are to Saburo like a glimpse of paradise. Meeting her is a moment he will remember forever, and for years he will try to find her again. When he finally does, she is by the side of her oldest brother and greatest rival.
Set in a tumultuous and violent period of Taiwanese history—as the Chinese Nationalist Army lays claim to the island and one autocracy replaces another—The Third Son is a richly textured story of lives governed by the inheritance of family and the legacy of culture, and of a young man determined to free himself from both.
In Saburo, debut author Julie Wu has created an extraordinary character who is determined to fight for everything he needs and wants, from food to education to his first love. A sparkling and moving story, it will have readers cheering for a young boy with his head in the clouds who, against all odds, finds himself on the frontier of America’s space program.
The Third Son, was shortlisted for the 2009 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Novel-in-Progress Competition. After graduating from Harvard with a B.A. in Literature, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Julie Wu received an M.D. at Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons. She has received a writing grant from the Vermont Studio Center and had a personal essay published in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) in 2010.
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Published 2013-03-01 by Algonquin |