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   Sep 6, 2016 · The Fortunes. Peter Ho Davies. 3.64. 2,029 ratings361 reviews. Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience.

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   Inhabiting four lives—a railroad baron’s valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star, a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption—this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as ...

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   Sep 6, 2016 · From the author of The Welsh Girl comes a groundbreaking, provocative new novel. Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience.

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   Who is Peter Ho Davies?

   • Building fact into fiction, spinning fiction around fact, Davies uses each of these stories—three inspired by real historical characters—to examine the process of becoming not only Chinese American, but American. Peter Ho Davies is a contemporary British writer of Welsh and Chinese descent. He was born and raised in Coventry.

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   What is the fortunes?

   • The Fortunes is a stunning look at what it means to be Chinese, what it means to be American, and what it means to be a person navigating the strands of identity, the things that made us who we are, whoever that is.

   Book Review: 'The Fortunes,' By Peter Ho Davies : NPR

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   Is Ho Davies a true story?

   • “Not to be missed…Using both real and fictional figures in Chinese American history, Ho Davies has created a masterful novel about what it is to feel like an outsider in the place you call home. It is also the story of America, told through the eyes of her immigrants.”

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   What is the theme of the fortunes?

   • The experience of being Chinese in America is the major theme of The Fortunes, a beautifully constructed novel told in four disparate though loosely-linked parts. The section on Ling opens the novel, and it's breathtaking. The son of a Chinese mother and white father, Ling comes to America after being sold by his uncle.

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   Sep 12, 2017 · The New Yorker Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience.

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   • Author: Peter Ho Davies

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   Sep 6, 2016 · Kindle Edition. “ [A] complex, beautiful novel . . . Stunning.”—NPR, Best Books of 2016. Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience.

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   Sep 6, 2016 · THE FORTUNES. by Peter Ho Davies ‧RELEASE DATE: Sept. 6, 2016. Davies’ nuanced contemplation of how America has affected the Chinese (and vice versa) forces the reader to confront what is... bookshelf. shop now. amazon.

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    Sep 10, 2016 · There's a moment in Peter Ho Davies' novel The Fortunes in which a Chinese immigrant to America, a teenage boy named Ling, experiences a painful epiphany. He's been working as a valet to...