Diamond Head
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
The rise and fall of a wealthy shipping family in China and Hawaii is observed by four generations of a murdered patriarch's secret-keeping daughters and granddaughters, who endure tragic love and painful sacrifices.
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The rise and fall of a wealthy shipping family in China and Hawaii is observed by four generations of a murdered patriarch's secret-keeping daughters and granddaughters, who endure tragic love and painful sacrifices.
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A sweeping debut spanning from China to Hawaii that follows four generations of a wealthy shipping family whose rise and decline is riddled with secrets and tragic love-from a young, powerful new voice in fiction.At the turn of the nineteenth century, Frank Leong, a fabulously wealthy shipping industrialist, moves his family from China to the island of Oahu. But something ancient follows the Leongs to Hawaii, haunting them. The parable of the red string of fate, the cord that binds one intended beloved to her perfect match, also punishes for mistakes in love, passing a destructive knot down the family line.
When Frank Leong is murdered, his family is thrown into a perilous downward spiral. Left to rebuild in their patriarch's shadow, the surviving members of the Leong family try their hand at a new, ordinary life, vowing to bury their gilded past. Still, the island continues to whisper-fragmented pieces of truth and chatter, until a letter arrives two decades later, carrying aconfession that shatters the family even further.
Now the Leongs' survival rests with young Theresa, Frank Leong's only grandchild, eighteen and pregnant, the heir apparent to her ancestors' punishing knots.
Told through the eyes of the Leong's secret-keeping daughters and wives and spanning The Boxer Rebellion to Pearl Harbor to 1960s Hawaii, Diamond Head is a breathtakingly powerful tale of tragic love, shocking lies, poignant compromise, aching loss, heroic acts of sacrifice and, miraculous hope.
Autoren-Porträt von Cecily Wong
Cecily Wong wurde auf der hawaiischen Insel O'ahu geboren und wuchs in Oregon auf. Sie studierte am renommierten Barnard College. Sie lebt in New York.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Cecily Wong
- 2015, 320 Seiten, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: HarperCollins US
- ISBN-10: 0062345435
- ISBN-13: 9780062345431
Sprache:
Englisch
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