{"product_id":"thousand-crimes-of-ming-tsu","title":"Thousand Crimes Of Ming Tsu","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Chinese American assassin sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact revenge on her abductors in this \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review Editors'' Choice: a twist on the classic western from \"an astonishing new voice\" (Jonathan Lethem).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his deadly enforcer. But when Ming falls in love with Ada, the daughter of a powerful railroad magnate, and the two elope, he seizes the opportunity to escape to a different life. Soon after, in a violent raid, the tycoon''s henchmen kidnap Ada and conscript Ming into service for the Central Pacific Railroad. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Battered, heartbroken, and yet defiant, Ming partners with a blind clairvoyant known only as the prophet. Together the two set out to rescue his wife and to exact revenge on the men who destroyed Ming, aided by a troupe of magic-show performers, some with supernatural powers, whom they meet on the journey. Ming blazes his way across the West, settling old scores with a single-minded devotion that culminates in an explosive and unexpected finale. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Written with the violent ardor of Cormac McCarthy and the otherworldly inventiveness of Ted Chiang, \u003ci\u003eThe Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a thriller, a romance, and a story of one man''s quest for redemption in the face of a distinctly American brutality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In Tom Lin''s novel, the atmosphere of Cormac McCarthy''s West, or that of the Coen Brothers'' \u003ci\u003eTrue Grit\u003c\/i\u003e, gives way to the phantasmagorical shades of Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney''s \u003ci\u003eThe Circus of Dr. Lao\u003c\/i\u003e, and Katherine Dunn''s \u003ci\u003eGeek Love\u003c\/i\u003e. Yet \u003ci\u003eThe Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu\u003c\/i\u003e has a velocity and perspective all its own, and is a fierce new version of the Westward Dream.\" —Jonathan Lethem, author of \u003ci\u003eMotherless Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313623736702,"sku":"NW9780316542142","price":12.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780316542142.jpg?v=1778592711","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/thousand-crimes-of-ming-tsu","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}