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An indelible work from a strikingly original voice in American fiction.

An indelible work from a strikingly original voice in American fiction.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • This "deeply immersive novel" (The Washington Post) from the author of the award-winning Preparation for the Next Life is an "epic coming-of-age tale filled with pain, heartache, fear, and undying love" (The Associated Press), as a young man's yearning to protect his dying mother requires him to risk destroying his estranged, enigmatic, powerful father. "From its hypnotic opening pages, we find ourse...

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From the author of the PEN/Faulkner winning debut novel Preparation for the Next Life--a searing, tender, haunting story about fathers and sons, sons and mothers, and a young boy's struggle to become a man.Corey Goltz is fifteen years old when his mother, Gloria, is diagnosed with ALS. Estranged from his father, and increasingly responsible for meeting both his mother's needs and his own, Corey is determined to be the hero Gloria needs --at an...

From the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning debut novel Preparation for the Next Life, a gripping, tender, unforgettable story about fathers and sons, regret and redemptionCorey Goltz grows up in the working-class outskirts of Boston as the only child of Gloria, whose ambitions were derailed early but who has always given her son everything she can. Corey, restless, dreams of leaving home for a great adventure. Instead, when he is fiftee...

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Questa è una lunga sequenza fotografica del ventre di New York. In primo piano sono in due: Zou Lei, immigrata clandestina entrata in America dal confine messicano, musulmana, per metà cinese-han, per metà di etnia uigura, giovane donna determinata a sopravvivere cercando libertà in una terra prodiga di schiaffi, e Brad Skinner, reduce rabbioso della guerra d'Iraq, giovane uomo ferito, carico dei fantasmi partoriti nel deserto. Due solitudini ...

Now in paperback, this is a contemporary novel set in New York, about a relationship between an illegal immigrant from China and a soldier damaged by 3 tours in Iraq. It won the Pen/Faulkner Prize for Fiction 2015 and the Paris Review Plimpton Prize 2015.

Die uigurische Kriegswaise Zou Lei hat es allein und mittellos bis in die USA geschafft. Illegal eingewandert und stets auf der Hut vor den Behörden, schlägt sie sich in New York mit Küchenjobs durch. Der Soldat Brad Skinner ist gerade zum dritten Mal aus dem Irak zurückgekehrt. Traumatisiert und arbeitslos begegnet er eines Tages Zou Lei, und eine Liebe zwischen Verzweiflung und Hoffnung beginnt. Auf der Suche nach Gemeinsamkeit und Halt durc...

In de restaurantkeukens in de onderbuik van New York zwoegt Zou Lei, een illegale immigrante uit de woestijn van China. De constante angst voor de immigratiedienst overschaduwt haar bestaan. Voor Zou Lei is hard werken geen keuze, geen stap op weg naar de Amerikaanse droom maar een constante strijd om te overleven, om de honderd dollar per week bijeen te sprokkelen die ze betaalt voor haar hoekje in het piepkleine appartement dat ze deelt met ...

Winner of the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Die uigurische Kriegswaise Zou Lei hat den langen Weg in die USA geschafft. Mittellos und allein trifft sie in New York den traumatisierten Irakkriegsveteranen Brad Skinner, und die beiden verlieben sich ineinander. Verzweifelt und dennoch voller Hoffnung auf ein neues Leben treiben sie durch die Stadt und suchen nach Halt. Doch inmitten der vielen Kulturen, der Verrohung und Versöhnung braut sich ein Unheil zusammen, das sie für immer aus ein...

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