Jack Wang

We Two Alone (eBook, ePUB)

Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Praised as "utterly remarkable" and "deeply resonant" by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees, which dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.

Set on five continents and spanning decades, We Two Alone traces the arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks his life, pretending to be a girl to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s. A Canadian couple is caught when Shanghai succumbs to violence during the Second Sino-Japanese War. A family sttempts to buy a home in South Africa in the early years of apartheid. An actor in New York struggles to keep his career alive while yearning to reconcile with his estranged wife.

From the vulnerable and disenfranchised to the educated and privileged, the characters in this extraordinary collection embody the diversity of the Chinese diaspora past and present. In these deeply affecting stories, Jack Wang subverts expectations as he captures the hope, pain, and sacrifices of the millions who journey into the unknown to create better lives, and explores the shifting boundaries of morality, the intimacies and failings of love, and the choices circumstances force us to make.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperVia
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063081802
• Artikelnr.: 60076701

Autorenporträt

Karina Sainz Borgo was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She began her career as a journalist for El Nacional. Since immigrating to Spain, she has written for Vozpópuli and collaborates with the literary magazine Zenda. Her debut novel, It Would Be Night in Caracas, was met with widespread acclaim and is now a major motion picture. Her latest novel, No Place to Bury the Dead, won the 2023 Jan Michalski Prize. She lives in Madrid.