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15 lip 2009 · In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people.
1 lis 2021 · Summary. The underground rule of illegal immigration in New York’s Chinatown run by a middle-aged grandmother with no education from Fujian Province, China. Develops into a full portrait of the immigration experience from the 70s-90s in the United States, mostly from the perspective of the Fukinese people coming over. Strong recommend.
Patrick Radden Keefe’s The Snakehead is a sprawling chronicle that examines the complex route taken by Chinese entering the United States illegally as clients of the professional human...
27 lip 2010 · The Snakehead reads like a Chinese-American version of The Sopranos, except that the mob boss is a grandmother who runs a human smuggling enterprise, and the story is true.” —Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side “Evocatively captures our yin and yang over immigration policy. . . .
The Snake Head: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe on Bookclubs, the website for organizing a bookclub
21 lip 2009 · Let’s start with a summary of some of the book’s central themes. The title of the book is taken from the colloquial use of the word snake to refer to a “circuitous smuggling route.”
