C. Pam Zhang Livres

An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape-trying not just to survive but to find a home. Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and glimpses of a different kind of future. Both epic and intimate, blending Chinese symbolism and reimagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story, an unforgettable sibling story, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page, it's about the memories that bind and divide families, and the yearning for home

FROM THE BOOKER-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF HOW MUCH OF THESE HILLS IS GOLD A smog has spread. Food crops are disappearing. A chef escapes her career in London to take a job at a decadent, mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden wonders and cool, seductive violence, the chef's boundaries undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate. Sensuous and surprising, joyous and bitingly sharp, told in alluring language, Land of Milk and Honey is a delicious, striking and sensual novel about food, sex and the intricacies of desire and longing.

»Das kühnste Debüt des Jahres« (The Observer) von einer aufregenden Newcomerin der Weltliteratur »Wie viel von diesen Hügeln ist Gold« ist eins von Barack Obamas Lieblingsbüchern 2020 Mit einer Pistole in den Händen und der Leiche des Vaters auf dem Rücken des Pferdes sind die chinesischen Waisenkinder Lucy und Sam auf der Flucht durch die Prärie. Amerika ist ein unbarmherziges Land, von Bisonknochen übersät und dem Goldrausch verfallen. Die Geschwister wollen den Vater gemäß dem chinesischen Ritual begraben – mit zwei Silberdollars auf den Augen. Nur auf diese Weise kann Ba nach Hause finden. Doch wo in dieser fremden Welt ist für Lucy und Sam das Zuhause, das so unerreichbar scheint wie das versprochene Gold in den Hügeln? Mit wilder Sprachmagie erzählt C Pam Zhang, Tochter chinesischer Einwanderer in Amerika, in ihrem Roman »Wie viel von diesen Hügeln ist Gold« von der Sehnsucht anzukommen – an einem Ort und in einer Identität, die sich über die Grenzen von Herkunft und Gender hinwegsetzt.