{"product_id":"the-thousand-crimes-of-ming-tsubooks","title":"The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Chinese American assassin sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact revenge on her abductors in this \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review Editors' Choice: a twist on the classic western from \"an astonishing new voice\" (Jonathan Lethem).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his deadly enforcer. But when Ming falls in love with Ada, the daughter of a powerful railroad magnate, and the two elope, he seizes the opportunity to escape to a different life. Soon after, in a violent raid, the tycoon's henchmen kidnap Ada and conscript Ming into service for the Central Pacific Railroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBattered, heartbroken, and yet defiant, Ming partners with a blind clairvoyant known only as the prophet. Together the two set out to rescue his wife and to exact revenge on the men who destroyed Ming, aided by a troupe of magic-show performers, some with supernatural powers, whom they meet on the journey. Ming blazes his way across the West, settling old scores with a single-minded devotion that culminates in an explosive and unexpected finale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with the violent ardor of Cormac McCarthy and the otherworldly inventiveness of Ted Chiang, \u003ci\u003eThe Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a thriller, a romance, and a story of one man's quest for redemption in the face of a distinctly American brutality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In Tom Lin's novel, the atmosphere of Cormac McCarthy's West, or that of the Coen Brothers' \u003ci\u003eTrue Grit\u003c\/i\u003e, gives way to the phantasmagorical shades of Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney's \u003ci\u003eThe Circus of Dr. Lao\u003c\/i\u003e, and Katherine Dunn's \u003ci\u003eGeek Love\u003c\/i\u003e. Yet \u003ci\u003eThe Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu\u003c\/i\u003e has a velocity and perspective all its own, and is a fierce new version of the Westward Dream.\" —Jonathan Lethem, author of \u003ci\u003eMotherless Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lin, Tom","offers":[{"title":"Hardback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44016994549984,"sku":"","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":46988774768864,"sku":"","price":13.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_05c477fb-6b18-4d09-973a-d17e24c52944.jpg?v=1684341262","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/the-thousand-crimes-of-ming-tsubooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}