C Pam Zhang

"A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of...

Ba muere de noche; Ma hace tiempo que se fue. Lucy y Sam, de apenas diez y doce años, han perdido a sus padres, inmigrantes chinos en la época de la fiebre del oro. Huyendo de la hostilidad de su pueblo minero, cargan con el cadáver en descomposición de su padre para darle una sepultura digna y fundar un nuevo comienzo. Viajando a la deriva en una tierra que niega su existencia por razones de raza y género, toparán con huesos de búfalo gigantes,...

A rediscovered classic of linked short stories set in San Francisco's Chinatown, portraying Chinese Americans as they fall in love, encounter racism, and wrestle with their new, hyphenated identities-a century before writers like Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan. Set in early twentieth-century Chinatown, Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings is the story of Chinese men and women living in the United States as they wrestle with prejudice and forced...