A PAIL OF OYSTERS - Tecno-Libro

Vern Sneider&rsquo.s . A Pail of Oysters . is the most important English-language novel ever written about Taiwan. Yet despite critical acclaim, this exciting and controversial book has long been unavailable to readers. Unlike Sneider&rsquo.s previous novel, the humorous bestseller . The Teahouse of the August Moon , this 1953 publication has a dark, menacing tone. Set against the political repression and poverty of the White Terror era, . A Pail of Oysters  .tells the moving story of nineteen-year-old villager Li Liu and his quest to recover his family&rsquo.s stolen kitchen god. Li Liu&rsquo.s fate becomes entwined with that of American journalist Ralph Barton, who, in trying to report honestly about KMT rule of the island, investigates the situation beyond the propaganda, learns of a massacre, and is drawn into the world of the Formosan underground. The . Chicago Sunday Tribune  .said, &ldquo.This book will hold the reader enthralled to the