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Wayson Choy


Wayson Choy's first novel, The Jade Peony, spent six months on The Globe and Mail's national bestseller list, shared the Trillium Book Award for best book in 1995, and won the 1996 City of Vancouver Book Award. All That Matters, a companion novel to The Jade Peony, won the Trillium Book Award in 2004 and was shortlisted for the 2005 Giller Prize. In 1999, Choy's first memoir, Paper Shadows, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award, the Charles Taylor Prize, and the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize. He won the Edna Staebler Award for Non-fiction. Choy's most recent book is Not Yet...

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Not Yet
Written by Wayson Choy

Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66311-3 (0-385-66311-0)

October 5, 2010 | $19.95

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Framed by Wayson Choy’s two brushes with death, Not Yet is an intimate and insightful study of one man’s reasons for living.

In 2001, Wayson Choy suffered a combined asthma-heart attack. As he lay in his hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, his days punctuated by the beeps of...

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Not Yet
Written by Wayson Choy

eBook | pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-37327-4 (0-307-37327-4)

May 29, 2009 | $27.95

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Not Yet
Written by Wayson Choy

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ISBN: 9780307373274
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Framed by Wayson Choy’s two brushes with death, Not Yet is an intimate and insightful study of one man’s reasons for living.

In 2001, Wayson Choy suffered a combined asthma-heart attack. As he lay in his hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, his days punctuated by the beeps of...

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Not Yet
Written by Wayson Choy

Hardcover | 208 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66310-6 (0-385-66310-2)

March 31, 2009 | $27.95

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Not Yet
Written by Wayson Choy

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ISBN: 9780385663106
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Framed by Wayson Choy’s two brushes with death, Not Yet is an intimate and insightful study of one man’s reasons for living.

In 2001, Wayson Choy suffered a combined asthma-heart attack. As he lay in his hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, his days punctuated by the beeps of...

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All That Matters
Written by Wayson Choy

Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-385-25777-0 (0-385-25777-5)

June 28, 2005 | $21.00

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All That Matters
Written by Wayson Choy

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ISBN: 9780385257770
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Kiam-Kim is three years old when he arrives by ship at Gold Mountain with his father and his grandmother, Poh-Poh, the Old One. It is 1926, and because of famine and civil war in China, they have left their village in Toishan province to become the new family of Third Uncle...