title: Lost Men: A Novel
author:  Brian Leung 
description: Leung gingerly reacquaints an estranged father and son who travel through China in this sagacious and lyrical debut novel. When Westen Chan's American mother died, his Chinese father, Xin, left him with his Caucasian great-aunt and uncle in rural Washington State, promising one day to return and take his son on a journey to Xin's village in China. More than 20 years have passed when Xin's invitation finally arrives. Westen is 32, but in many ways still childlike: insecure, resentful and stubborn. A virgin, he at least partially blames his romantic difficulties, with both men and women, on being abandoned by his father. Xin, now elderly, ill and trying to cope with his own guilt, is unsure if he can reconnect with his son. The two haltingly reintroduce and explain themselves, and while on the trip, Xin confides in Westen about the hardship he left behind in his village and shares ancient traditions. The stories of the two men, told in an alternating first person, become increasingly gripping: "Be careful about judging people without knowing all their history," says Xin, who also bears an unopened letter from Westen's mother to her son. Throughout, Leung handles the complex father-son relationship with care, and does a marvelous job negotiating the two men's fraught cultural and emotional legacies. <i>(June)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Also by Peter May
  
  
  FICTION
  
  
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  The Blackhouse
  
  
  The Lewis Man
  
  
  The Chessmen
  
  
  The China Thrillers
  
  
  The Firemaker
  
  
  The Fourth Sacrifice
  
  
  The Killing Room
  
  
  Snakehead
  
  
  The Runner
  
  
  Chinese Whispers
  
  
  The Ghost Marriage: A China Novella
  
  
  The Enzo Files
  
  
  Extraordinary People
  
  
  The Critic
  
  
  Blacklight Blue
  
  
  Freeze Frame
  
  
  Blowback
  
  
  Cast Iron
  
  
  Stand-alone Novels
  
  
  The Man With No Face
  
  
  I’ll Keep You Safe
  
  
  Entry Island
  
  
  Runaway
  
  
  Coffin Road
  
  
  non-FICTION
  
  
  Hebrides (with David Wilson)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  First published in Great Britain in 1992 by Piatkus
  
  
  This ebook edition first published in 2019 by
  
  
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  an imprint of
  
  
  Quercus Editions Ltd
  
  
  Carmelite House
  
  
  50 Victoria Embankment
  
  
  London EC4Y 0DZ
  
  
  An Hachette UK company
  
  
  Copyright © 1992 Peter May
  
  
  The moral right of Peter May to be
  
  
  identified as the author of this work