C Pam Zhang
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"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 hidden...
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2020.
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Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and glimpses of a different kind of future.
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"Wie viel von diesen Hügeln ist Gold" ist eins von Obamas Lieblingsbüchern 2020
Mit einer Pistole in den Händen und der Leiche des Vaters auf dem Rücken des Pferdes sind die chinesischen Waisenkinder Lucy und Sam auf der Flucht durch die Prärie. Es ist ein unbarmherziges Land, von Bisonknochen übersät und dem Goldrausch verfallen. Die Geschwister wollen den Vater gemäß dem chinesischen Ritual begraben - mit zwei Silberdollars auf den Augen....