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Cookie akzeptieren- Penguin LLC US
- 2022
- Taschenbuch
- 384 Seiten
- ISBN 9780593471708
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Marie Claire Washington Post Vulture NBC News Buzzfeed Veranda PopSugar Paste The Millions Bustle Crimereads Goodreads Bookbub Boston.com* and more! "The thefts are engaging and surprising, and the narrative brims with international intrigue. Li, however, has delivered more than a straight thriller here, especially in the parts that depict the despair Will and his pals feel at being displaced, overlooked, underestimated and discriminated against. This is as much a novel as a reckoning." -New York Times Book Review Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums; about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity. History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now. Will Chen plans to steal them back. A senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major and sometimes artist, the eldest son who has always been his parents' American Dream. But when a mysterious Chinese benefactor reaches out with an impossible-and illegal-job offer, Will finds himself something else as well: the leader of a heist to steal back five priceless Chinese sculptures, looted from Beijing centuries ago. His crew is every heist archetype one can imagine-or at least, the closest he can get. A con artist: Irene Chen, a public policy major at Duke
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