Set in China and Hong Kong from 1900 to 1969, this novel features Patrick Galvin - ex-priest and missionary. Galvin exists at street level yet there is a terrible secret in his past that, as he moves towards death, surfaces and puts into question the meaning of his whole life.
- ISBN10 0671715976
- ISBN13 9780671715977
- Publish Date 1 December 1998 (first published 30 September 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Pocket Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 368
- Language English