{"product_id":"the-fortunes","title":"Peter Ho Davies: The Fortunes [2016] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAh Ling: son of a prostitute and a white 'ghost', dispatched from Hong Kong as a boy to make his way alone in 1860s California. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna May Wong: the first Chinese film star in Hollywood, forbidden to kiss a white man on screen. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVincent Chin: killed by a pair of Detroit auto workers in 1982 simply for looking Japanese.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Ling Smith: a half-Chinese writer visiting China for the first time, to adopt a baby girl.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by three figures who lived at pivotal moments in Chinese-American history, and drawing on his own mixed-race experience, Peter Ho Davies plunges us into what it is like to feel, and be treated, like a foreigner in the country you call home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRanging from the mouth of the Pearl River to the land of golden opportunity, this remarkable novel spans 150 years to tell a tale of familial bonds denied and fragmented, of tenacity and pride, of prejudice and the universal need to belong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Davies, Peter Ho","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52970216096083,"sku":"9780340980231","price":24.27,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":52970216128851,"sku":"XV80340980231","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/davies-peter-ho-the-fortunes-1219633057.jpg?v=1770418717","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/the-fortunes","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}