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Zusatztext A fierce and compelling debut ... Crazy good , richly poetic in the telling, I devoured 100 pages at first sitting. The story of immigrant experience, but one we've rarely read or imagined. A rollicking adventure story to boot Informationen zum Autor Born in Beijing but mostly an artifact of the United States, C Pam Zhang has lived in thirteen cities and is still looking for home. She's been awarded fellowships and scholarships from organisations including Bread Loaf , Tin House and Aspen Words . Her work appears in Kenyon Review , McSweeney's Quarterly , Tin House and elsewhere. She currently lives in San Francisco. Klappentext In the American West, during the Gold Rush, Lucy and Sam leave town with a gun in their hands and the body of their father on their backs. The siblings seek out a new way to live, but will their secrets bring them together or break them apart? Vorwort 'A wonder . . . gorgeous, soulful, feral' GARTH GREENWELL 'Ferocious, dark and gleaming' LAUREN GROFF An untold story of the arrival of Chinese-American immigrants to the US during the Gold Rush. A novel about conflict between two siblings, carrying the body of their newly deceased father across a harsh landscape. Zusammenfassung 'A wonder . . . gorgeous, soulful, feral' GARTH GREENWELL'Ferocious, dark and gleaming' LAUREN GROFFAn untold story of the arrival of Chinese-American immigrants to the US during the Gold Rush. A novel about conflict between two siblings, carrying the body of their newly deceased father across a harsh landscape.
