Ho Davies, Peter - Fortunes
| Schrijver: | Ho Davies, Peter |
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| Titel: | Fortunes |
| ISBN: | 9780340980231 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | Sceptre |
| Bijzonderheden: | Goed, Gekartonneerd met stofomslag, 320p |
| Prijs: | € 12,00 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 3,50 (binnen Nederland) |
| Meer info: |
By the author of the Booker longlisted The Welsh Girl, a vibrant, powerful and iconoclastic novel telling the little-known story of the Chinese in America, and of America through its Chinese.\n\nAh Ling: son of a prostitute and a white 'ghost', dispatched from Hong Kong as a boy to make his way alone in 1860s California.\n\nAnna May Wong: the first Chinese film star in Hollywood, forbidden to kiss a white man on screen.\n\nVincent Chin: killed by a pair of Detroit auto workers in 1982 simply for looking Japanese.\n\nJohn Ling Smith: a half-Chinese writer visiting China for the first time, to adopt a baby girl.\n\nInspired by three figures who lived at pivotal moments in Chinese-American history, and drawing on his own mixed-race experience, Peter Ho Davies plunges us into what it is like to feel, and be treated, like a foreigner in the country you call home.\n\nRanging from the mouth of the Pearl River to the land of golden opportunity, this remarkable novel spans 150 years to tell a tale of familial bonds denied and fragmented, of tenacity and pride, of prejudice and the universal need to belong.
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