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ISBN10: 0743246357
ISBN13: 9780743246354
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: Apr 1 2005
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.82
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.16
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780743246354
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: Apr 1 2005
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.82
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.16
Language: English
When Vincent Saunders -- fresh out of college in the States -- arrives in Taiwan as a Christian volunteer and English teacher, he meets a wealthy Taiwanese businessman who wishes to marry a young woman living in China near Heaven Lake but is thwarted by political conflict. Mr. Gwa wonders: In exchange for money, will Vincent travel to China, take part in a counterfeit marriage, and bring the woman back to Taiwan for Gwa to marry legitimately? Believing that marriage is a sacrament, Vincent says no.
Soon, though, everything Vincent understands about himself and his vocation in Taiwan changes. A complicated friendship with one of the high-school girls he teaches sends him on a path toward spiritual reckoning. It also causes him to reconsider Gwa's extraordinary proposition. What follows is not just an exhilarating -- sometimes harrowing -- journey to a remote city in China, but an exploration of love, loneliness, and the nature of faith.
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