Peter Ho Davies Bücher

Peter Ho Davies ist ein junger Schriftsteller mit einer ungewöhnlich weltläufigen Perspektive. Er erzählt Geschichten, die nicht nur sein multinationales Erbe widerspiegeln, sondern auch in seltsamen Gegenüberstellungen Freude bereiten. In Erzählungen, die von Coventry nach Kuala Lumpur, von der Vergangenheit in die Gegenwart und von Heiterkeit zu Tragödie reisen, treiben amerikanische Banditen Strauße in Patagonien, britische Soldaten konfrontieren Zulus in Natal, und John Wayne führt lokale Revolutionäre in Südostasien an. Dies sind Geschichten, in denen kleine Leben von folgenreichen Ereignissen betroffen sind. In "A Union" spielt ein langanhaltender Streik in einem walisischen Schieferbruch mysteriöse Zeittricks mit einem Paar, das ein Baby erwartet. In "The Silver Screen" schließen sich zusammengewürfelte Rebellen einer kommunistischen Revolution mit dem Flair der Keystone Kops an. In der herzzerreißenden Titelgeschichte bewältigt eine ländliche Gemeinschaft in Nordwales den Unfalltod eines Kindes und lernt die Ausmaße von Schuld kennen. Mit ihrem tiefen Humanismus und spitzen Humor sind die Geschichten

Diesen wie mit feiner Feder gezeichneten Geschichten aus unserer kleinen Welt der großen Gegensätze ist eines gemein: das alles durchdringende Thema der Liebe. Ob ein junger Mann viel über sich selbst lernt, als er seinen Vater nach alter chinesischer Tradition bestatten möchte, oder ob das zarte Erwachen einer Teenagerliebe einen Ehebruch verhindert ? immer rührt Davies präzise an den emotionalen Kern unserer tiefsten Erfahrungen.§§Ausgezeichnet als New York Times Book of the Year.§§

The fifteenth volume in the Art of series takes an expansive view of revision―on the page and in lifeIn The Art of The Last Wor d, Peter Ho Davies takes up an often discussed yet frequently misunderstood subject. He begins by addressing the invisibility of revision―even though it’s an essential part of the writing process, readers typically only see a final draft, leaving the practice shrouded in mystery. To combat this, Davies pulls examples from his novels The Welsh Girl and The Fortunes , as well as from the work of other writers, including Flannery O’Connor, Carmen Machado, and Raymond Carver, shedding light on this slippery subject.Davies also looks beyond literature to work that has been adapted or rewritten, such as books made into films, stories rewritten by another author, and the practice of retconning in comics and film. In an affecting frame story, Davies recounts the story of a violent encounter in his youth, which he then retells over the years, culminating in a final telling at the funeral of his father. In this way, the book arrives at an exhilarating mode of thinking about revision―that it is the writer who must change, as well as the writing. The result is a book that is as useful as it is moving, one that asks writers to reflect upon themselves and their writing.

A heartbreaking, soul-baring novel about the repercussions of choice that "will strike a resonant chord with parents everywhere" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), from the award-winning author of The Welsh Girl and The Fortunes

The Fortunes reimagines the traditional multigenerational novel through the lens of immigrant experience. The family institution is revered in Chinese culture, but the historical reality of Chinese Americans has seen family bonds denied, fragmented, or imperiled. The Fortunes uses this history from the bachelor society of the gold rush era to laws against interracial marriage to the recent wave of adopted baby girls to create a portrait of a community whose line of descent is broken, yet which has tenaciously persisted, as much through love as by blood. Through four lives a railroad baron's valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood's first Chinese movie star, a victim of a hate crime that mobilizes Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption--this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history. These stories, three of which are inspired by real historical characters, examines the process of becoming not only Chinese American, but American

Set in the stunning landscape of North Wales just after D-Day, Daviess profoundly moving first novel traces a perilous wartime romance.