WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW by Clifford Garstang is a provocative tale describing the neighbors of the Nanking Mansion condominium complex on the edge of Washington D.C.'s Chinatown, where the personal lives of the neighbors become entwined with one another as they struggle through their personal and professional tribulations of life/5(32). · My novel in stories, What the Zhang Boys Know, is now available for pre-order from the publisher, Press Go here to reserve your autographed copy, scheduled to ship in mid-August, weeks before the official publication date.. Set in a condominium building on the edge of Chinatown in Washington, D.C., these stories present the struggle of Zhang Feng-qi, originally from Shanghai, to . Clifford Garstang’s What the Zhang Boys Know is an imaginative novel told in short stories about the inhabitants of Nanking Mansion condominiums in Chinatown, Washington, DC. Garstang’s wonderful prose weaves an intense storyline as each short story shifts the spotlight from character to character, condominium to condominium/5.
My novel in stories, What the Zhang Boys Know, came out a little over three years ago. Since then, it has received a few editorial reviews, all favorable, and also won the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I'm very proud of the book and grateful that it found a home with Press "What the Zhang Boys Know has a dozen chapters, each one a vivid short story in itself. Garstang makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts. The lives of the inhabitants of a condominium in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown are told separately and as part of a web of entanglements. What The Zhang Boys Know. by Clifford Garstang. As many stories, as many characters and as many perspectives - but not quite yet. What The Zhang Boys Know opens with a family scene, quite typical for many families, and therefore so easy to relate to, to place oneself into the shoes of the father, the children, the observers who enter into the scene, abruptly, but somehow we know - there.
What the Zhang Boys Know, a novel in stories: Set in a condominium building on the edge of Chinatown in Washington, D.C., these stories present the struggle of Zhang Feng-qi, originally from Shanghai, to find a new mother for his sons following the death of his American wife. Along the way, the stories spotlight Zhang’s neighbors as they seek to fill gaps in their own lives. Clifford Garstang is the author of five works of fiction including the novels Oliver’s Travels and The Shaman of Turtle Valley and the short story collections House of the Ancients and Other Stories, What the Zhang Boys Know, and In an Uncharted Country. "What the Zhang Boys Know has a dozen chapters, each one a vivid short story in itself. Garstang makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts. The lives of the inhabitants of a condominium in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown are told separately and as part of a web of entanglements.
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