Portrait of a Thief

A Novel

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<br>An Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel<br>Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel PrizeNamed a New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2022<br>Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by *Marie Claire* *Washington Post* *Vulture* *NBC News* *Buzzfeed* *Veranda* *PopSugar* *Paste* *The Millions* *Bustle* *Crimereads* Goodreads* *Bookbub* *[...]* and more!<br><br>"The thefts are engaging and surprising, and the narrative brims with international intrigue. Li, however, has delivered more than a straight thriller here, especially in the parts that depict the despair Will and his pals feel at being displaced, overlooked, underestimated, and discriminated against. This is as much a novel as a reckoning."<br>—New York Times Book Review<br><br>Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums; about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity<br><br>History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now. <br><br> Will Chen plans to steal them back.<br><br>A senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major and sometimes artist, the eldest son who has always been his parents' American Dream. But when a mysterious Chinese benefactor reaches out with an impossible—and illegal—job offer, Will finds himself something else as well: the leader of a heist to steal back five priceless Chinese sculptures, looted from Beijing centuries ago. <br><br>His crew is every heist archetype one can imag­ine—or at least, the closest he can get. A con artist: Irene Chen, a public policy major at Duke who can talk her way out of anything. A thief: Daniel Liang, a premed student with steady hands just as c

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780593186060

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 133 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin LLC US