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The Fortunes
Peter Ho Davies
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Description for The Fortunes
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Dimension: 154 x 233 x 24. Weight in Grams: 378.
Ah Ling: son of a prostitute and a white 'ghost', dispatched from Hong Kong as a boy to make his way alone in 1860s California. Anna Mae Wong: the first Chinese film star in Hollywood, forbidden to kiss a white man on screen. Vincent Chin: killed by a pair of Detroit auto workers in 1982 simply for looking Japanese. John Ling Smith: a half-Chinese writer visiting China for the first time, to adopt a baby girl. Inspired by three figures who lived at pivotal ... Read more
Ah Ling: son of a prostitute and a white 'ghost', dispatched from Hong Kong as a boy to make his way alone in 1860s California. Anna Mae Wong: the first Chinese film star in Hollywood, forbidden to kiss a white man on screen. Vincent Chin: killed by a pair of Detroit auto workers in 1982 simply for looking Japanese. John Ling Smith: a half-Chinese writer visiting China for the first time, to adopt a baby girl. Inspired by three figures who lived at pivotal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340980248
SKU
V9780340980248
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-1
About Peter Ho Davies
Peter Ho Davies's novel THE WELSH GIRL was published by Sceptre in 2007, when it was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It was also a Richard & Judy Book Club choice and was shortlisted for the R & J Best Read at the British Book Awards. His first short story collection, THE UGLIEST HOUSE IN THE WORLD (1997), ... Read more
Reviews for The Fortunes
Only a writer as gifted as Peter Ho Davies could capture the full weight of a century's history with such an extraordinary lightness of touch . . . Buoyant yet profound, unsentimental yet affecting, and above all beautifully written, The Fortunes reimagines in thrilling ways what the multi-generational immigrant novel can be.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
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