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. 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 Asian . PETER HO DAVIES’s novel The Fortunes won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is also the author of The Welsh Girl, long-listed for the Booker Prize and a London Times bestseller, as well as two critically acclaimed collections of short stories. · This time, Davies’ characters are bound together not by Welsh identity or wartime, but by the long historic project of trying to both invent and represent Chinese American life. “The Fortunes Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
PETER HO DAVIES is the author of the novels A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself (), The Fortunes () and The Welsh Girl (), as well as the story collections The Ugliest House in the World () and Equal Love ().His work has appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post and TLS, among others, and his short fiction. PETER HO DAVIES is the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of The Welsh Girl (long-listed for the Booker Prize), The Ugliest House in the World, and Equal Love. Davies was chosen by Granta as one of the Best of Young British Novelists in He teaches at the University of Michigan. PETER HO DAVIES's novel, The Fortunes, won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and the Chautauqua Prize and was. THE FORTUNES By Peter Ho Davies pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $ Halfway through Peter Ho Davies's justly acclaimed first novel, "The Welsh Girl," set in the final months of World.
This time, Davies’ characters are bound together not by Welsh identity or wartime, but by the long historic project of trying to both invent and represent Chinese American life. “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. 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 Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption - this novel. 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. 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 Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption—this novel.
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