By the author of the Booker longlisted The Welsh Girl, a vibrant, powerful and iconoclastic novel telling the little-known story of the Chinese in America, and of America through its Chinese.
A new novel from the author of the Booker longlisted "The Welsh Girl", this follows various Chinese Americans at different times in history, from a boy in 1860s Sacramento, to a 1920s flapper, a murder victim in 1980s Detroit and a half-Chinese writer in the present day.
Only a writer as gifted as Peter Ho Davies could capture the full weight of a century's history with such an extraordinary lightness of touch . . . Buoyant yet profound, unsentimental yet affecting, and above all beautifully written,
The Fortunes reimagines in thrilling ways what the multi-generational immigrant novel can be.
