Four Treasures of the Sky
- Author Jenny Tinghui Zhang
- Narrator Katharine Chin
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 12 hours and 18 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical fiction, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Sense of place.
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What to expect
Daiyu is the orphaned daughter of a once influential, now missing, family. Alone and on the streets, she must rely on her wits to discover what happened to her family.
But when Daiyu is kidnapped and smuggled from China to America, she relinquishes the future she imagined.
Over the years that follow, she is forced to reinvent herself to survive. From a calligraphy school to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains of the Wild West, we follow Daiyu on a desperate quest to outrun the tragedy that chases her. As anti-Chinese sentiment sweeps across the country in a wave of unimaginable violence, Daiyu must draw on each of the selves she has been - including the ones she most wants to leave behind - in order to finally claim her own name and story.
Critics Review
An engulfing, bighearted and heartbreaking novel. Illuminates shocking injustices, making us stop and consider how many survive to this day
An impressive and original debut
A sweeping adventure of identity, love and belonging
Brilliant and devastating. Four Treasures of the Sky tells the story of Daiyu, who is brought to America against her will and forced to hide who she is even as she grows into her true self. Weaving together myth and history, Zhang’s work is both timeless and utterly necessary right now.
An instant and necessary classic, easily among the best novels of this past decade. The story lingers long after its final pages
An astonishing novel propelled by private and public histories, rich with reflections on self-making, moral calling, great love, and profound injustice
This unforgettable novel dazzles. An exhilarating rush of character, history and storytelling
Brings alive a heroine for the ages, an indomitable teenage girl whose relentless spirit and self-reinvention carries this story. Daiyu is sure to take her place in the canon of great Western heroines next to True Grit’s Mattie Ross
This book is haunting, luscious and precise – it’s historical fiction as we most want and need it to be. Four Treasures of the Sky paints a neglected chapter in history with sharp and devastating brushstrokes
A lyrical and sweeping Bildungsroman, fierce and moving
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