Four Treasures of the Sky
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  • Published: 28 April 2022
  • ISBN: 9781405952446
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $26.00
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Four Treasures of the Sky

The compelling debut about identity and belonging in the 1880s American West

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28 Apr 2022
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4 Jul 2023
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A powerful debut of race, gender, heritage and survival, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century America

Daiyu is the orphaned daughter of a once influential, now missing, family. Alone and on the streets, she must rely on her wits to discover what happened to her family.

But when Daiyu is kidnapped and smuggled from China to America, she relinquishes the future she imagined.

Over the years that follow, she is forced to reinvent herself to survive. From a calligraphy school to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains of the Wild West, we follow Daiyu on a desperate quest to outrun the tragedy that chases her. As anti-Chinese sentiment sweeps across the country in a wave of unimaginable violence, Daiyu must draw on each of the selves she has been - including the ones she most wants to leave behind - in order to finally claim her own name and story.
  • Published: 28 April 2022
  • ISBN: 9781405952446
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $26.00
Categories:

About the author

Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Jenny Tinghui Zhang is a Texas-based Chinese-American writer. Four Treasures of the Sky is her first novel.

Praise for Four Treasures of the Sky

A sweeping adventure of identity, love, and belonging

C Pam Zhang, Man Booker longlisted author of 'How Much of These Hills are Gold'

An exhilarating rush of character, history, and storytelling. This unforgettable novel dazzles

Kali Fajardo-Anstine, National Book Award finalist author of 'Sabrina & Corina'

An instant and necessary classic, easily among the best novels of this decade. The story lingers long after its final pages

T Kira Madden, acclaimed author of 'Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls'

Brilliant and devastating. Weaving together myth and history, it is both timeless and utterly necessary right now

Anna North, 'Outlawed'

An engulfing, bighearted, and heartbreaking novel. Illuminates the shocking injustices suffered in the 1800s, and in doing so, makes us stop and consider how much of that cruelty and injustice survives to this day

Ann Patchett
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