Troy Blappert

Learning to Eat Bitter (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Xiao Gui never believed what the villagers said about his family name Gui or Ghost being unlucky. After his mother disappeared, he thought maybe they were right. A chance to live and study kung fu at Shaolin Temple could be a way of changing his fate. It will require extraordinary strength and determination. Will he be able to change his life if he masters the kung fu at the 1500-year-old temple of Shaolin? How will he find his mother who disappeared from their small village in Henan province when China is one of the largest countries in the world? Xiao Gui has to do something in a world that appears to be filled with unfairness and cruelty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Schlisselthal
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Altersempfehlung: ab 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781733666510
• Artikelnr.: 55854390

Autorenporträt

Troy Blappert has co-written many English language textbooks over the past 20 years with several different publishers around the world. He has also taught English in Taipei, Hong Kong, Seoul, Saudi Arabia, and in the United States. He studied fiction writing at the Writers' Program at UCLA, and he has a M.Ed. from the Institute of Education at University College London. He grew up in the New Orleans' area. His hobbies include Shaolin kung fu, tai chi, and reading. He has studied with three different Shaolin Wuseng or Warrior Monks over a ten-year period, which was the catalyst for this novel. He lives in San Antonio with his wife.