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The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Ah Ling: son of a prostitute and a white 'ghost', dispatched from Hong Kong as a boy to make his way alone in 1860s California. Anna Mae Wong: the first Chinese film star in Hollywood, forbidden to kiss a white man on screen. Vincent Chin: killed by a pair of Detroit auto workers in 1982 simply for look ...Show more
The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies
38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
This vibrant and unusual novel features a Chinese boy left to make his way in 1860s Sacramento; a glamorous film star and 1920s flapper, forbidden to kiss a white man on screen; Vincent Chin, killed in 1980s Detroit because he looked Japanese; and in the present, a half-Chinese writer, who has all he wa ...Show more
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams of the bright lights of an English city; and in a nearby POW camp, a German soldier struggles to reconcile his surrender with his ...Show more
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