TY - BOOK AU - Wah,Paul TI - A thin slice of heaven SN - 9780473412463 U1 - NZ823.3 23 PY - 2018///] CY - [Lower Hutt] PB - Paul Wah KW - Ng, Leung Kee KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Fiction KW - Kidnapping KW - Guangdong Sheng (China) KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions KW - Wellington (N.Z.) KW - New Zealand fiction KW - 21st century KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Biographical fiction N1 - Novel N2 - A historical novel recounting the adventures of the author's great-grandfather, Ng Leung Kee, who migrated to New Zealand in 1880 and set up a successful Chinese merchant business in Wellington. Ng Leung Kee returned to Tiansum, China in 1922, to take his grandson Leslie to receive a Chinese education. They faced significant challenges, including the kidnapping of Leslie by bandits, during a period of tumultuous political, economic and social conditions in China ER -