The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

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<p><b>A Chinese American assassin sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact revenge on her abductors in this <i>New York Times</i> Book Review Editors' Choice: a twist on the classic western from "an astonishing new voice" (Jonathan Lethem).</b></p><p>Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his deadly enforcer. But when Ming falls in love with Ada, the daughter of a powerful railroad magnate, and the two elope, he seizes the opportunity to escape to a different life. Soon after, in a violent raid, the tycoon's henchmen kidnap Ada and conscript Ming into service for the Central Pacific Railroad.</p><p>Battered, heartbroken, and yet defiant, Ming partners with a blind clairvoyant known only as the prophet. Together the two set out to rescue his wife and to exact revenge on the men who destroyed Ming, aided by a troupe of magic-show performers, some with supernatural powers, whom they meet on the journey. Ming blazes his way across the West, settling old scores with a single-minded devotion that culminates in an explosive and unexpected finale.</p><p>Written with the violent ardor of Cormac McCarthy and the otherworldly inventiveness of Ted Chiang, <i>The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu</i> is at once a thriller, a romance, and a story of one man's quest for redemption in the face of a distinctly American brutality.</p><p><b>"In Tom Lin's novel, the atmosphere of Cormac McCarthy's West, or that of the Coen Brothers' <i>True Grit</i>, gives way to the phantasmagorical shades of Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney's <i>The Circus of Dr. Lao</i>, and Katherine Dunn's <i>Geek Love</i>. Yet <i>The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu</i> has a velocity and perspective all its own, and is a fierce new version of the Westward Dream." —Jonathan Lethem, author of <i>Motherless Brooklyn</i></b></p><p><b>Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence</b></p><p><b>Finalist for the Young Lions F

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780316542142

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

213 x 139 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Little Brown and Company