C Pam Zhang
Auteur de How Much of These Hills Is Gold
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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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- Œuvres
- 2
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 1,106
- Popularité
- #23,235
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 46
- ISBN
- 29
- Langues
- 5
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.