Jonathan Raban - Waxwings - Paperback Book

Name: Jonathan Raban - Waxwings - Paperback Book
Brand: Jonathan Raban

Jonathan Raban

WaxwingsAuthor(s): Jonathan Raban\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom\nImprint: Picador\nISBN-13: 9780330480505, 978-0330480505\nSynopsis\nAt the turn of the millennium, two immigrants are drawn to the United States by their own versions of the American Dream. For Tom Janeway - a Hungarian-born English intellectual most at home with his books - it's the family he thought he'd never have. For Chick - an illegal alien newly escaped from a cargo container - it's the land of plenty he imagined back in China. But as the stock market hits a new high, anti-globalist riots break out in the streets, a terrorist is arrested and a child disappears, the two men's dreams collide in a way neither could have anticipated. Unjustly accused of a horrific crime, estranged from his wife and his beloved young son, Tom's life is rapidly unravelling. Chick, meanwhile, has a burgeoning business by day but no safe place to lay his bed at night. For both, the New World proves surpri.