{"product_id":"9780340980255","title":"The Fortunes","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Davies, Peter Ho \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 01\/06\/2017,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 368 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780340980255,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\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. 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 looking Japanese.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Ling Smith: a half-Chinese writer visiting China for the first time, to adopt a baby girl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697852121132,"sku":"9780340980255","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780340980255.jpg?v=1722604338","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780340980255","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}