# Transparency

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- Book: [Transparency](https://www.bookquiver.com/frances-hwang/transparency) ([Transparency.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/frances-hwang/transparency.md))
- Authors: [Frances Hwang](https://www.bookquiver.com/frances-hwang)
- Publisher: little_brown_us
- ISBN: 978-03-1616-693-5
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2007-09-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

With a deceptively simple yet graceful style, Frances Hwang captures the thousand minor battles waged in the homes of immigrants - struggles to preserve time-honoured traditions or break free of them, to maintain authority or challenge it and to take advantage of modern excesses without diluting one's ethnic identity. In 'Garden City', a weary Chinese couple struggling to evict their deadbeat tenant, is forced to face the aftermath of their teenaged son's death from cancer. In 'Transparency', Henry Liu - sure that he is dying - is given a second lease on life. And in 'The Old Gentleman', a daughter discovers a dark secret from her father's past.