LOOK SOUTH TO THE POLAR STAR (554 pp.)Holger CahillHarcourt, Brace ($3).
The author of this novel about China visited China briefly years ago, and has never been back. Since then Minnesota-born Holger Cahill, 54, has headed the WPA Art Project, and written an able biography of U.S. soldier-of-fortune Frederick T. ("Chinese") Ward. This long, rich novel is as full of indigestible mixtures and exotic surprises as the $1.35 "Chinese" dinner at any U.S. city's Shanghai Palace (one flight up over Jake's Paints & Hardware).
The story involves an ex-Harvard professor named Lewis Teigne who disappears mysteriously from his house near Shanghai. Perhaps he...
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