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Description

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... read more

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First Sentence

HE WAS UP by four A.M., such was his eagerness, and less than an hour later installed on a predawn, air-conditioned express train that hurried south from Taipei through long-drawn neighborhoods of shuttered store-fronts and faintly glimmering apartment houses.

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  1. John Dalton (Author)
 

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