"The most honest, unflinching, cathartically biting novel I've read about the Chinese American experience. "A prophetic work, with passages of surpassing beauty."-Joyce Carol Oates, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award citation The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies, 2016, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company edition, in English. In a rave reviewof The Fortunesby Peter Ho Davies, NPR’s Michael Schaub says, Davieswrites with a rare emotional resonance and a deft sense of structure it’s hard not to be in awe of the. Inhabiting four lives-a railroad baron's valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor Hollywood's first Chinese movie star a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes the Asian American community and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption-this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive-as much through love as blood. On Davies’ website is a playlist to accompany The Fortunes. Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience. British author and academic Peter Ho Davies’s historical novel The Fortunes (2016) is presented in the form of four interconnected short stories.Each tale features a character of Chinese descent, three of whom Davies based on real people, as they attempt to navigate the world in their respective eras, resulting in a generation-spanning saga of a larger immigrant family. The Fortunes is a boldly imagined work of fiction in which historic figuresChinese, Chinese-American, ‘white’come to an astonishingly vivid, visceral life through the power of Peter Ho Davies’s prose, Oates writes. filled with quiet resonances across time."-The New Yorker "Riveting and luminous.Like the best books, this one haunts the reader well after the end."-Jesmyn Ward For literature that confronts racism and examines diversityįinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
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