Left behind in China by her father, who has gone to North America to find work, Choon-yi has made her living by selling her paintings in the market. When her father writes one day and asks her to join him, she joyously sets off, only to discover that he has been killed. Choon-yi sees the railway and the giant train engines that her father died for, and she is filled with an urge to paint them. But her work disappoints her until a ghostly presence beckons her to board the train where she meets the ghosts of the men who died building the railway. Will Choon-yi find a way to make peace with her father's death? Ghostly, magical, and redeeming, this masterful tale is superbly illustrated by Harvey Chan.
- ISBN10 0888999801
- ISBN13 9780888999801
- Publish Date 23 February 2010 (first published 24 October 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 2021
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Groundwood Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 32
- Language English