Paper Shadows

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Paper Shadows:
A Chinatown Childhood
First edition cover of Canadian release
AuthorWayson Choy
CountryCanada
Subject
PublisherViking Penguin
Publication date
1 October 1999
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages352
ISBN978-0-312-28415-2

Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood is a memoir written by the Canadian writer Wayson Choy, first published in October 1999 by Viking Press. In the book, the author chronicles his experience growing up as an immigrant in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1940s and 1950s.[2] Paper Shadows received shortlist honours for the 2000 Vancouver City Book Award and won the 2000 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction.[2]

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  1. ^ Goodreads, Paper Shadows, Book review, 22 November 2012
  2. ^ a b Faculty of Arts, 2000, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Wayson Choy, Retrieved 21 November 2012

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