Новинки Дженни Тинхуэй Чжан

Динамичный, отточенный роман, раскрывающий непростой период американской истории начала конца XIX — начала XX века, связанный с обстоятельствами Акта об исключении китайцев. "Меня назвали во славу трагедии" – заключила для себя Дайюй в детстве, когда бабушка читала сказку о героине, в честь которой ее нарекли. Знала ли Дайюй, что это отправная точка злоключений, когда ее похитили и увезли из Китая в Америку, лишив семьи и мечты постигнуть искусство каллиграфии? Отныне ей придется создавать себя заново, чтобы выжить в стране, охваченной антикитайскими настроениями и волной невообразимого насилия, где ее имя, пол и внешность могут стать…

Daiyu was named after a ghost . . .
Little Daiyu is twelve when her parents disappear. So she runs, disguising herself as a boy, to sweep the steps of Master Wang's calligraphy school in Zhifu.
But this is just the beginning of a journey that sends her across an ocean to San Francisco and the lawless American west.
Kidnapped. Trafficked. Betrayed.
Prize virgin in a brothel.
Passion. Revenge. Freedom.
A woman in a man's world.
Daiyu fears her name is a curse on her life.
But what if it might yet set her free?

Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself.
Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains, we follow Daiyu on a desperate quest to outrun the tragedy that chases her.
As anti-Chinese sentiment sweeps across the country in a wave of unimaginable violence, Daiyu must draw on each of the selves she has been - including the ones she most wants to leave behind - in order to finally claim her own name and story.
At once a literary tour de force and a groundbreaking work of historical fiction, Four Treasures of the Sky announces Jenny Tinghui Zhang as an indelible new voice. Steeped in untold history and Chinese folklore, this novel is a spellbinding feat.

Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains, we follow Daiyu on a desperate quest to outrun the tragedy that chases her. As anti-Chinese sentiment sweeps across the country in a wave of unimaginable violence, Daiyu must draw on each of the selves she has been—including the ones she most wants to leave behind—in order to finally claim her own name and story.

At once a literary tour de force and a groundbreaking work of historical fiction, Four Treasures of the Sky announces Jenny Tinghui Zhang as an indelible new voice. Steeped in untold history and Chinese folklore, this novel is a spellbinding feat.