The fortunes
Davies, Peter Ho, 1966-2017
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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 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.
Main title:
The fortunes / Peter Ho Davies.
Author:
Davies, Peter Ho, 1966-, author
Imprint:
London : Sceptre, 2017.
Collation:
351 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2016.
ISBN:
9780340980255 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2222572
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milton Keynes Central Library | Adult fiction | Available |