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Another bump, with some edits to the OP to reflect some cleanup that Goodreads staff did while fixing an invalid bot merge.
Hi! #1 entry set as "Deleted" in status so I put it back as "public". Here is the book.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Thank you for your help. Everything in #1 still needs to be corrected; could you please take care of it?
Drace wrote: "Thank you for your help. Everything in #1 still needs to be corrected; could you please take care of it?"#1 done:)
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1. US Paperback: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
- The ISBN-10, ISBN-13, and ASIN are all missing. The ISBN-13 should be 9781558613188 and the ISBN-10 and ASIN should both be 1558613188.
- Jennifer Feeley needs to be added with the Translator role.
- The publisher is incorrect. It should be The Feminist Press at CUNY.
- The date published is incorrect. It should be June 11, 2024.
- The page count is missing. It should be 280.
- The following sentence needs to be added in bold to the beginning of the description as its own paragraph:
A gripping psychological thriller steeped in the current political tensions in Hong Kong.
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2. UK Paperback: Tongueless (ISBN 9781800812819)
- Jennifer Feeley needs to be added with the Translator role.
- The date published is incorrect. It should be June 6, 2024.
- The format is incorrect. This is a paperback, not a hardcover.
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3. UK Ebook: Tongueless (ISBN 9781800812833)
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows:
Provocative contemporary Hong Kong noir, blending together politics and personal rivalry into an explosively exciting debut
Wai and Ling are secondary school Chinese language teachers in Hong Kong, both crumbling under the pressure of a forced transition from using Cantonese to Mandarin as a medium of Chinese-language instruction. Apolitical and focused only on surviving their professional environment, Wai and Ling approach the challenge differently: Wai, awkward and unpopular, becomes obsessed with Mandarin learning, only to fail the qualification exam, lose her job, become mentally ill, and kill herself by inserting a drill into her head.
Ling is polished and cunning, she knows how to please her superiors and believes she can tactfully dodge the Mandarin challenge through her social savviness. Ling sees herself haunted and mirrored by Wai's tragedy: things around her slowly spiral out of control and her colleagues begin to shun her too. What will she do to survive in a ruthless environment where the rules of survival are constantly being re-written?
Tongueless is a taut, compelling novel of betrayal, power imbalance and rapid social change.
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4. UK Kindle: Tongueless (ASIN B0CJGLM612)
- The description is incorrect. It should be the same as Entry 3.