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The new novel - her first in six years - from the acclaimed author of Dreaming in Cuban and The Agüero Sisters follows one family from China to Cuba to America in an emotionally resonant tale of immigration, assimilation, and the powerful integrity of self.

In 1857, when Chen Pan signs a contract that will take him from China 'beyond the edge of the world to Cuba,' he has no idea that he will be enslaved on a sugarcane plantation . . . or that he will eventually, miraculously, escape his bonds and embark on a prosperous life in Havana's Chinatown . . . or that he will buy a mulatto woman out of slavery and take her into his home and heart . . . or that he will end his long days in Havana, surrounded by children and grandchildren, as Cuban as he is Chinese.

In a vivid tapestry of incident and feeling, Chen Pan's life story is interwoven with those of two of his descendants: his granddaughter, Chen Fang, born in China and raised as a boy so she could be educated, her life coming to its end in one of Mao's hellish prisons, and Domingo, Chen Pan's great-great-grandson, who, with his father, becomes an American citizen after Castro's revolution, only to lose his parent to the false promises of the American dream, and himself, finally, to the madness of wartime Vietnam.

Deeply stirring, wonderfully evocative of time and place, rendered in the lyrical prose that is Cristina García's hallmark, Monkey Hunting brilliantly illuminates a generations-long struggle toward a sense of true belonging.
 
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Hardback Editions

April 2003 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B000MC2QGMTitle: Monkey Hunting
Author(s): Cristina Garcia
Publisher: Knopf
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April 2003 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0375410562Title: Monkey Hunting
Author(s): Cristina Garcia
ISBN: 0-375-41056-2 / 978-0-375-41056-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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Paperback Editions

April 2004 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0345466101Title: Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Author(s): Cristina Garcia
ISBN: 0-345-46610-1 / 978-0-345-46610-5 (USA edition)
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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2003 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000H8GSZ6Title: Monkey Hunting
Author(s): Cristina Garcia
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
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Audio Editions

2003 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 0736693955Title: Monkey Hunting
Author(s): Cristina Garcia
ISBN: 0-7366-9395-5 / 978-0-7366-9395-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc.
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December 2007 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B0012YZH24Title: Monkey Hunting
Author(s): Cristina Garcia
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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