A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself by Peter Ho Davies

$39.99 NZD

Category: Fiction | Reading Level: new

"There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies's achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood is just such a story...The world needs more stories like this one, more of this kind of courage, more of this kind of love." --Sigrid Nunez, National Bo "There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies's achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood is just such a story...The world needs more stories like this one, more of this kind of courage, more of this kind of love." --Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend   A heartbreaking, soul-baring novel about the repercussions of choice that "will strike a resonant chord with parents everywhere," (starred Kirkus) from the award-winning author of The Welsh Girl and The Fortunes   A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate yet political experiences a family can have: to have a child, and conversely, the decision not to have a child. A first pregnancy is interrupted by test results at once catastrophic and uncertain. A second pregnancy ends in a fraught birth, a beloved child, the purgatory of further tests--and questions that reverberate down the years.   When does sorrow turn to shame? When does love become labor? When does chance become choice? When does a diagnosis become destiny? And when does fact become fiction?   This spare, graceful narrative chronicles the flux of parenthood, marriage, and the day-to-day practice of loving someone. As challenging as it is vulnerable, as furious as it is tender, as touching as it is darkly comic, Peter Ho Davies's new novel is an unprecedented depiction of fatherhood. ...Show more

Equal Love by Davies, Peter Ho

$25.95 NZD

Category: Fiction

The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies

$37.99 NZD

Category: Fiction

This vibrant and unusual novel features a Chinese boy left to make his way in 1860s Sacramento; a glamorous film star and 1920s flapper, forbidden to kiss a white man on screen; Vincent Chin, killed in 1980s Detroit because he looked Japanese; and in the present, a half-Chinese writer, who has all he wa This vibrant and unusual novel features a Chinese boy left to make his way in 1860s Sacramento; a glamorous film star and 1920s flapper, forbidden to kiss a white man on screen; Vincent Chin, killed in 1980s Detroit because he looked Japanese; and in the present, a half-Chinese writer, who has all he wants except a child. Playfully recasting the traditional multi-generational novel, TELL IT SLANT traces the lives of four people, both real and imagined, who together capture the history of the Chinese in America. Ranging from the bachelor society of the Gold Rush era to the recent wave of adopted Chinese babies, this is a tale of familial bonds denied and fragmented. Yet it's also one of great tenacity, success and slow but sure change. It is the story, too, of America, seen through the lens of the foreigners brought in to build the Transcontinental Railroad in the wake of the Civil War, and who stayed on. A masterful, often heartrending novel, which reminds us of our common humanity and the universal need to belong. ...Show more

The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies

$24.99 NZD

Category: Fiction

Ah 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 look Ah 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.John Ling Smith: a half-Chinese writer visiting China for the first time, to adopt a baby girl.Inspired 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.Ranging 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. ...Show more

The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies

$24.99 NZD

Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good

In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams of the bright lights of an English city; and in a nearby POW camp, a German soldier struggles to reconcile his surrender with his In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams of the bright lights of an English city; and in a nearby POW camp, a German soldier struggles to reconcile his surrender with his sense of honour. As their lives intersect, all three will come to question where they belong and where their loyalties lie. Peter Ho Davies' thought-provoking and profoundly moving first novel traces a perilous wartime romance as it explores the bonds of love and duty that hold us to family, country, and ultimately our fellow man. Vividly rooted in history and landscape, The Welsh Girl reminds us anew of the pervasive presence of the past, and the startling intimacy of the foreign. ...Show more

The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies

$38.00 NZD

Category: Fiction

In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams of the bright lights of an English city; and in a nearby POW camp, a German soldier struggles to reconcile his surrender with his In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams of the bright lights of an English city; and in a nearby POW camp, a German soldier struggles to reconcile his surrender with his sense of honour. As their lives intersect, all three will come to question where they belong and where their loyalties lie.Peter Ho Davies ...Show more