A Superior Man
Written by Paul Yee
Narrated by James Chen
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Paul Yee
PAUL YEE was born in Spalding, Saskatchewan, and grew up in Vancouver's Chinatown. A former archivist, he now writes full time. His books have won many awards and honors, including the Governor General's Award (Ghost Train), the Ruth Schwartz Award (Ghost Train and Roses Sing on New Snow), and the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award (Tales from Gold Mountain). He has won the Vancouver Book Award and been shortlisted for the BC Book Prize, and his books have been named to several lists, including NYPL Books for the Teen Age (Dead Man’s Gold), ALA Notables and Booklist's Top Ten Historical Fiction. Most recently, Paul’s young adult novel Money Boy was named a Stonewall Honor Book and he won the Vicky Metcalf Award for a body of work. Paul lives in Toronto.
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Reviews for A Superior Man
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I looked forward to reading A Superior Man by Paul Yee because I am a descendant of early Chinese Canadian immigrants who settled in the geographic area during the same timeframe covered in the book. Mentally I was engaged by the stories and travails of Hok, but the style of writing and coarseness of language was offputting to me. I can well imagine the turns of phrase used by these uneducated and rough China men may be true to life, but it made for unpleasant reading. The story contained enough tragedy, violence, racism and poverty as it was. Many characters were only thumbnail sketches and our antagonist seemed unpleasant, arrogant, greedy and shallow. So points for the research and storyline generally but outweighed by my distaste for the writing.