C Pam Zhang

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.

A Novel

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

Land of Milk and Honey

A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city 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 language as alluring as it is original, Land of Milk and Honey lays provocatively bare the ethics of seeking pleasure in a dying world. It is a daringly imaginative exploration of desire and deception, privilege and faith, and the roles we play to survive. Most of all, it is a love letter to food, to wild delight, and to the transformative power of a woman embracing her own appetite.

Roman

Wie viel von diesen Hügeln ist Gold

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “One of the most pleasurable, inventive reads of the year… fiendishly, deliciously fun."—San Francisco Chronicle “It’s rare to read anything that feels this unique.” –GABRIELLE ZEVIN, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow "Land of Milk and Honey is truly exceptional."–ROXANE GAY, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist “A sharp, sensual piece of art.”–RAVEN LEILANI, New York Times bestselling author of Luster The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city 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 language as alluring as it is original, Land of Milk and Honey lays provocatively bare the ethics of seeking pleasure in a dying world. It is a daringly imaginative exploration of desire and deception, privilege and faith, and the roles we play to survive. Most of all, it is a love letter to food, to wild delight, and to the transformative power of a woman embracing her own appetite.

In the House of the Jackal

Tijdens de Amerikaanse goudkoorts vluchten twee kinderen door het Wilde Westen met het lijk van hun vader in een kist.

Al wat goud op de bergen is

"Passado durante a corrida ao ouro na América, gótico e western em partes iguais (com um toque de fábula), Montanhas Douradas acompanha Lucy e Sam, que, com apenas doze e onze anos de idade, perderam os pais e partem numa viagem fantasmagórica - em direção a um futuro incerto, mas também em direção a um passado desconhecido -, tendo a paisagem californiana e a sua beleza impiedosa não apenas como pano de fundo, mas como personagem. Com uma prosa sucinta, porém cadenciada e rica, este é um romance íntimo e selvagem sobre a memória, o sentido de pertença e a busca de um lugar no mundo. Uma inesquecível história que anuncia C Pam Zhang como uma das mais deslumbrantes novas vozes na literatura. Numa visão geral, o livro explora a questão racial num país em expansão e questiona o lugar a que pertencem os imigrantes. Mas, página a página, é nas memórias que ligam e separam famílias e na saudade do seu país e da sua casa que assenta este livro descrito pelo The New York Times como viciante e belo." --

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