Description
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard's library. He knows not to ask too many questions, stand out too much, stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve 'American culture' in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic - including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest to find her. His journey will take him through the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
| EAN: | 9780349145167 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 27.04.2023 |
| Autoren: | Ng, Celeste |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 352 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Asian American & Pacific Islander |
| Keyword: | Celeste Ng; Little Fires Everywhere; domestic fiction; books about family relationships; novels about families; thrillers; Reese Witherspoon; Kerry Washington; Big Little Lies; Liana Moriarty; Everything I never Told You; Celeste Ng books; Netflix dramas; bestselling fiction; exciting reads; books to read this year; bestselling authors; new fiction |
| Fachschema: | Amerikanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Dystopische & utopische Literatur~Thriller / Spannung~Familienleben~Alternativweltgeschichten |
| Interesse Alter: | Bezug zu asiatischen Amerikanern / Amerikanern mit pazifischen Wurzeln |
| Imprint-Titels: | Abacus |