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The story of early twentieth-century day laborer Robert Grainer, who endures the harrowing loss of his family while struggling for survival in the American West against a backdrop of radical historical changes.

\"David Henry Hwang is a true original. A native of Los Angeles, born to immigrant parents, he has one foot on each side of a cultural divide. He knows America - its vernacular, its social landscape, its theatrical traditions. He knows the same about China. In his plays, he manages to mix both of these conflicting cultures until he arrives at a style that is wholly his own. Mr. Hwang's works have the verve of well-made American comedies and yet, with little warning, they can bubble over into the mystical rituals of Oriental stagecraft. By at once bringing West and East into conflict and unity, this playwright has found the perfect means to dramatize both the pain and humor of the immigrant experience.\" -Frank Rich,New York Times Throughout his career, David Henry Hwang has explored the complexities of forging Eastern and Western cultures in a contemporary America. Over the past twenty years, his extraordinary body of work has been marked by a deep desire to reaffirm the common humanity in all of us. This volume collects a generous selection of Mr. Hwang's plays, includingFOB,The Dance and the Railroad,Family Devotions,The Sound of a Voice,The House of Sleeping Beauties,The Voyage,Bondage, andTrying to Find Chinatown. FOBis an OBIE Award-winning play that explores the contrasting experiences, attitudes, and conflicts of established Asian Americans and fresh-off-the-boat (FOB) Asian immigrants. One of David Henry Hwang's earliest plays,FOBhas been called \"a theatrically provocative combination of realism and fantasy... A sensitive, insightful, and multilevel play\" (Christian Science Monitor). InThe Dance and the Railroad, two Chinese workers on the Transcontinental Railroad struggle through poverty and hunger to reconnect with the traditions of their homeland. \"An evocative portrait of the immigrant experience,\"The Dance and the Railroadis set in 1867 during a strike in an Asian labor camp (New York Post). Family Devotionstakes a different look at the clash between East and West through the perspective of a Chinese American family living in a Los Angeles suburb. TheChicago TribunecallsFamily Devotions\"a funny and compassionate piece of writing.\" The Sound of a Voiceis the original story of a lone samurai warrior and his encounter with a rumored witch in the woods. Inspired by Japanese folk stories and Noh theatre, this play of desperation and desire is about \"timeless human emotion, a subject made all the more powerful by dialogue that rings with the power and rhythm of poetry\" (Asian Avenue Magazine). InThe House of Sleeping Beauties, an elderly man visits a unique brothel filled with sleeping virgins, where customers are only permitted to sleep in a shared bed. Based on Hwang's exploration of how the novelist Yasunari Kawabata was affected by his own stories, this play is \"an earnest, considered experiment furthering an exceptional young writer's process of growth\" (New York Times). Hwang's libretto forThe Voyagewas written in collaboration with composer Phillip Glass for the Metropolitan Opera's 500th year celebration of Columbus Day. Instead of focusing on Christopher Columbus, however, the three act opera is a more general exploration of time, space, and possibility. An encounter in an SM parlor between a man and woman in full bodysuits sets the scene for Bondage, where their role play becomes \"an exploration of race, love and politics in the weirdest possible contortions\" (Northwest Asian Weekly). Trying to Find Chinatown, an exploration of racial identity and appearance, revolves around the interaction between an Asian street musician and a Caucasian man who claims Asian American heritage.

Set in the shadow of Kenya's independence from Great Britain, this story reimagines the special circumstances that brought black, brown, and white men together to lay the railroad that heralded the birth of the nation.-- Provided by publisher.

If you say the word \"museum\" to some folks it automatically sets their cheeks on yawn mode. [...] Burlington should not create a museum, but instead a railroad theme park to celebrate everything from the locomotive to the caboose, passenger travel and freight hauling, the Transcontinental Railroad to new speed trains.

Centred on three generations of a family of rail workers and a laid-off factory worker staging a high-altitude sit-in, MATER 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of ordinary working Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first century. It is at once a powerful account that captures a nation's longing for a rail line to reconnect North and South, a magical-realist novel that depicts the lives of modern industrial workers, and a culmination of Hwang's career -- a masterpiece thirty years in the making. A true voice of a generation, Hwang shows again why he is unmatched when it comes to depicting the grief of a divided nation and bringing to life the cultural identity and trials and tribulations of the Korean people.

Fort Lauderdale-based BankAtlantic Bancorp is the parent of BankAtlantic and stock brokerage Ryan Beck & Co. Levitt Corp. is a home builder and developer whose projects include St. Lucie West. Levitt is applying to the New York Stock Exchange for a listing. BANKATLANTIC APPROVES LEVITT SPINOFF: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-- BankAtlantic Bancorp's board approved the spin-off of real estate firm Levitt Corp., declaring a stock dividend of all of BankAtlantic's shares in Levitt, the company said Thursday.

\"After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar American landscape in the hopes of reuniting her family. As she makes her way through an unforgiving new world, her father, a railroad worker in California, finds his attempts to build a life for himself both upended and defined by along-lost love and the seemingly inescapable violence of the American West. A generational saga ranging from the villages of China to the establishment of the transcontinental railroad and the anti-Chinese movement in California, Straw Dogs of the Universe considers the tenacity of family ties and the courage it takes to survive in a country that rejects you, even as it relies upon your labor.\"--Dust jacket flap.