ISBN: 9780316542159
Editorial: Little
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 288
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Críticas "Lin displays remarkable skill in maneuvering his plot and characters... Ming is a unique figure. He's a murderer with a strange personal code... but he's also a score-settling outlaw worthy of True Grit... This is a major work that enlarges our view of the Wild West and marks Lin as a writer to watch."--BookPage (starred review)"The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu whips through brutal American West landscapes and breathless battles as we follow Ming on his cinematic quest for justice."--Sacramento Bee"A rollicking gallery of Western archetypes."--Los Angeles Times (Best Books of Summer 2021)"A western gothic revenge tale ripe for a Coen brothers adaptation."--Boston Globe"Eminently entertaining... There's a lot to love in this expansive debut novel from Tom Lin. The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu is a truly cinematic Western. Its vistas and action sequences are perfectly designed for fans of graphic novels and the big screen alike. Similarly, the body count is crafted for an audience that enjoys adrenaline's pulse in its ears. Lin's wordcraft is deft and painterly, whether he's describing a fight scene or a desert... an important, vivid story, with characters led through the landscape by the demands of its plot... I hope we see more of all these stories from Tom Lin in the future."--NPR.org"Five stars... I love everything about this book: from the cover-- which looks like an old Western movie -- to the title, which sounds like an ancient epic, to the story itself... ripe for a Coen Brothers adaptation."--South Coast Today"Impressive... As a kind of redemptive imaginative act, Lin has created a poetic and cinematic story centered on a Chinese American sharpshooter."--San Francisco Chronicle"Infused with magic realism, Lin's beautifully imagined first novel is an extraordinary epic with page-turning, often cinematic action that transcends the parameters of genre fiction. A brilliant debut, impossible to put down."--Booklist (starred review)"Lin creates a wild, wild west hero who, in the name of true love, embarks on an epic quest for gruesome revenge... With dexterous agility, Lin showcases Ming's multi-faceted identity... Ming's story of denial becomes Lin's ingenious assertion of his own Chinese American heritage, his fiction a literal projection of the Chinese American experience onto the page."--Shelf Awareness"Lin's novel employs the classic blood-filled revenge narrative, backdropped by 'the vast disc of the sun slipping earthward, ' to focus on characters that this narrative has traditionally excluded. Ming is a Chinese American assassin avenging the kidnapping of his wife, a white woman, by railroad men. Given the deeply troubled history of Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans in the West, especially as it relates to the building of the transcontinental railroad, Ming's journey is one with important historic implications, both personal and cultural--not to mention gorgeously cinematic."--Literary Hub"Ming Tsu's search for frontier justice and his sense of duty make him a character worthy of our empathy... Certainly there are echoes of McCarthy's Blood Meridian, but there are also features of Ming's story, and Lin's writing, that remind one of Elmore Leonard or even E. Annie Proulx... A startling tale."--Petoskey News-Review"Part revenge fantasy, part classic bloody tale of the Old West. In this book, things return--people, oceans, violence--but remembering is a choice and the body bears the cost... In this unforgiving landscape, which Lin vividly and meticulously describes in prose whose music is reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's, even a rainstorm can take on mythical proportions."--New York Times Book Review"Subverting the usual thrust of Wild West stories, Lin makes ruthless Chinese-American outlaw Ming the anti-hero, dispensing vengeance-flavoured justice to those who, in traditional Westerns, are lionised no matter how vicious or racist: sheriffs, judges, bounty hunters, railroad tycoons and their foremen.
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Lin, Tom
- Editorial: Little
- N° Paginas: 288
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
