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C Pam Zhang

Auteur de How Much of These Hills Is Gold

2+ oeuvres 1,106 utilisateurs 46 critiques

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Œuvres de C Pam Zhang

How Much of These Hills Is Gold (2020) 883 exemplaires
Land of Milk and Honey: A Novel (2023) 223 exemplaires

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Sexe
female
Nationalité
USA
China (birth)
Lieu de naissance
Beijing, China
Lieux de résidence
San Francisco, California, USA
Kentucky, USA
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Études
Brown University
University of Cambridge
Professions
novelist
Courte biographie
C Pam Zhang is an American writer best known for her work How Much of These Hills is Gold, released by Riverhead Books in 2020.

Zhang was born in Beijing and moved to the United States when she was 4. Growing up, she moved a lot and lived in ten different places by the time she was 18. She attended Brown University and has studied at Cambridge University. Zhang was the 2017 Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writer's Workshop.

How Much of These Hills is Gold follows two newly orphaned children of immigrants, who are on the run, trying not just to survive but to find a home. The novel is set against the twilight of the American gold rush. How Much of These Hills is Gold is inspired by Zhang's childhood of moving around and reckons with the grief she experienced after losing her father when she was 22.

The New York Times said: "C Pam Zhang’s arresting, beautiful first novel is filled with myths of her own making as well as sorrows and joys."

The San Francisco Chronicle said that Zhang's novel is a “a fully immersive epic drama packed with narrative riches and exquisitely crafted prose…Zhang captures not only the mesmeric beauty and storied history of America’s sacred landscape, but also the harsh sacrifices countless people were forced to make in hopes of laying claim to its bounty.”

Zhang has been awarded support from Tin House, Bread Loaf, Aspen Words and elsewhere.

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Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC!

This was more so a long form poem, I found myself struggling to find the plot, but also was swept away by the prose and language of it all. It was beautifully written, but not necessarily something I was craving as an escape at this moment in time.
 
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eboods | 5 autres critiques | Feb 28, 2024 |
Oct 2020: DNF. I can't with the literary misery, especially right now.

Dec 2023: Also, this will forever remain in my memory as The One Where The Children Carry Their Father's Decomposing Body Around In A Chest And Pieces Start Falling Off Of It And The Daughter Sees Her Father's Penis Fall Off And Kicks Dirt Over It And Revels In Her Power Over Him. Like, I get that it's supposed to be symbolic and surreal, but it's actually an unintentional parody of the entire genre.… (plus d'informations)
 
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caedocyon | 39 autres critiques | Feb 23, 2024 |
I give two "A" grades for effort. The first goes to an author who set an overly-ambitious goal to give voice to some of society’s looming crises in breakneck fashion. The second goes to me for plodding ahead with this disjointed apocalyptic tale until the one-third mark. Some reviewers say the book improves in the second half, but I made a promise-to-self long ago to abandon works that are not delivering. Too many books; too little time. (Fortunately, my “dnf” list only grows by a few books a year thanks in part to guidance from the GoodReads community). I assign 1 star to “Land of Milk and Honey” because it does prod readers to ponder numerous global problems (media moguls are fond of calling some “existential threats.") But I couldn’t get into this book from the very first pages. The characters seemed like caricatures. The storyline lacked cohesion. The pacing was off. Perhaps it’s me. Maybe I’ve simply grown weary of dystopian dramas.… (plus d'informations)
 
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brianinbuffalo | 5 autres critiques | Jan 21, 2024 |
I didn't get very far into this before I gave up. The author makes very heavy-handed use of extended food metaphors for absolutely everything, and I wasn't interested enough in the characters to muddle my way through it.
 
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Gwendydd | 5 autres critiques | Jan 6, 2024 |

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