Lan Samantha Chang

A REMARKABLE FAMILY NOVEL ABOUT RACISM, COMMUNITY AND JUDGEMENT, FOR READERS OF CELESTE NG, C PAM ZHANG, BRIT BENNETT AND JEFFREY EUGENIDESAn insightful comedy of the American immigrant experience, and of a small towns inner workings JOHN IRVINGOne of the finest and most ambitious novels about America Ive read YIYUN LIA gorgeous and gripping literary mystery. . . reflecting themes of family, betrayal, passion, race, culture and the American Dream. . . A masterpiece JEAN KWOK____________For years, the residents of Lake Haven, Wisconsin ignored the whispered troubles about the Chao family, if only to keep eating at the best restaurant in town. But when tyrannical patriarch Big Chao is found frozen to death in the familys meat freezer, scandalous events force the community to turn its attention to the three Chao sons.Dagou - presupposed heir to the business.Ming - accomplished city lawyer, determined to sever ties with Havens Asian community once and for all.James - naive college student, who is only just learning of his familys past.When the familys dog mysteriously disappears, and Dagou Dog Eater Chao is held on trial for his fathers murder, the Chaos turbulent history spills into the public eye, while a small town looks on in disbelief. . .AN INVENTIVE COMIC MYSTERY ABOUT THE UNDERCURRENTS OF AN UNFORTUNATE DEATH AND A TIMELESS TALE ABOUT DISTRUST, JUDEGEMENT AND CONDEMNATION____________MORE PRAISE FOR THE FAMILY CHAOWith nuance and slyness, wit and empathy, Chang turns the desires and deceits of one unhappy family into a moving and compelling saga of that classic American illness: ambition VIET THANH NGUYENAt once a brilliant reimagining of Dostoevsky and a wholly original and gripping story about the passions, rivalries and searing pressures that roil a singular immigrant family JESS WALTERThe Family Chao is the ultimate family saga. Love, mystery, courtroom drama and lots of sibling rivalry. . . at every turn theres something new and surprising. I absolutely loved it. Its a masterclass LUAN GOLDIEA gripping story of three brothers, their tyrannical father and the family restaurant set in the American Midwest. . . Chang writes brilliantly about love, hate, food, dogs, race, sex, morality and money. . . marvellous and wonderfully entertaining MARGOT LIVESEYAn intricate look at the so-called American Dream and one small-town American family trying and failing to save itself. . . An up-to-the-minute look at what it means to be accused and visible in America ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN

A modern classic of American fiction: a haunting collection of stories that explore the lost loves and complex desires of Chinese-American immigrant familiesThe novella and five stories that make up this collection tell of displaced lives, and exiled imaginations. Far away from their ancestral home, a grandmother tells her granddaughters stories of their river ancestors. Having relocated to the American Midwest, a young couple purposefully drive all remnants of their lives in China into the shadows. In the title novella, a woman recounts her tragic marriage to an exiled musician, whose own disappointments nearly destroy their two daughters.In exquisitely crisp, spare and subtle prose, Lan Samantha Chang untangles how an immigrant can hunger for love, for acceptance, and for what they have left behind. An undeniable classic of modern American literature, Hunger is a haunting collection of stories, suffused with quiet beauty and longing.

Un espíritu seduce a una joven para que le siga a las aguas de un río sin retorno. Una madre encarga a su hija una venganza insospechada. El amor de una mujer por un músico exiliado la conduce a un matrimonio sin esperanza. Las historias incluidas en este libro revelan la vida de familia inmigrantes lastradas por el peso de la ausencia. Sus protagonistas han tenido que relegar a un doloroso olvido familia, cultura e identidad para poder construir un presente en el crisol de la America intercultural.

For years, the residents of Lake Haven, Wisconsin ignored the whispered troubles about the Chao family, if only to keep eating at the best restaurant in town. But when tyrannical patriarch Leo 'Big' Chao is found frozen to death in the family's meat freezer, scandalous events force the community to turn its attention to the three Chao sons.Dagou - presupposed heir to the business.Ming - accomplished city lawyer, determined to sever ties with Haven's Asian community once and for all.James - naive college student, who is only just learning of his family's past.When the family's dog mysteriously disappears, and Dagou 'Dog Eater' Chao is held on trial for his father's murder, the Chaos' turbulent history spills into the public eye, and a small town looks on in disbelief. . .

Cuando la pasión socava los más profundos vínculos familiares, sólo la memoria es capaz de recuperarlos. En China, en 1931, dos jóvenes hermanas de una distinguida familia quedan afectivamente abandonadas tras el suicidio de su madre. Juran no separarse jamas, pero la vida les pondra ante una terrible encrucijada. Ambientada en China y Estados Unidos sobre un telon de fondo de caos politico y agitacion social, narra el rastro de una traicion a lo largo de generaciones. Solo una mirada mestiza como la de la escritora norteamericana de origen chino Lang Samantha Chang podia percibir asi los matices universales de la pasion; solo una pluma prodigiosa puede trasladarnos la huidiza naturaleza de la confianza.