03525cam a2200469 i 4500 625878710 TxAuBib 20210805120000.0 210524s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020951409 9780316542159 hardcover 0316542156 hardcover (OCoLC)1252628207 NjBwBT NjBwBT eng eng rda rda OQX rda OQX rda OQX OCO OCLCO OCLCQ JAS GO3 YDX BDX AZZPT CNNWP TOH ILC OCLCO OCLCF UAB YU6 OCLCO SINLB UKMGB OCL TXAAL TxAuBib OQX OCO OCLCO OCLCQ JAS GO3 YDX BDX AZZPT CNNWP TOH ILC OCLCO OCLCF UAB YU6 OCLCO SINLB UKMGB OCL TXAAL TxAuBib rda Lin, Tom, 1996-, author. The thousand crimes of Ming Tsu : a novel / Tom Lin. One thousand crimes of Ming Tsu. 1000 crimes of Ming Tsu. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. ©2021. 275 pages : map ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier cri rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier An astounding debut that reimagines the classic Western through the eyes of a Chinese American assassin on a quest to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact his revenge on her abductors, and "declares the arrival of an astonishing new voice" (Jonathan Lethem). 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. 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. Written with the violent ardor of Cormac McCarthy and the otherworldly inventiveness of Ted Chiang, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu 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. "In Tom Lin's novel, the atmosphere of Cormac McCarthy's West, or that of the Coen Brothers' True Grit, gives way to the phantasmagorical shades of Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao, and Katherine Dunn's Geek Love. Yet The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu has a velocity and perspective all its own, and is a fierce new version of the Westward Dream." --Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn. 20210805. Chinese Americans Fiction. Assassins Fiction. Kidnapping Fiction. Clairvoyants Fiction. Magicians Fiction. Revenge Fiction. Magic realist fiction. Western fiction. Novels. Fiction. TXAAL