Peter Ho Davies Books

'Witty, intelligent . . . definitely a name to watch.' Scotland on Sunday In his new collection, prize-winning author Peter Ho Davies takes as his starting point the essential imbalance of the relationship between parent and child. Drawing on the author's own cross-cultural inheritance, these stories range across a series of settings and backgrounds. From a Chinese son gambling with professional mourners to a mixed-race couple who experience a close encounter with an alien being, Ho Davies' characters share an instantly recognizable sense of displacement - these are children of one century, adults of the next - caught between debts to their parents and what they owe their offspring. Sharply observed and compassionate, Equal Love imparts the talent of a truly original writer, whose work has already earned comparison with that of Raymond Carver, James Joyce and V. S. Naipaul. 'Smartly written and sweetly subversive.' Independent 'A set of delicate variations on the theme that love brings pain.Davies'.writing is poignant and humane.' Sunday Times 'This is Ho Davies on top form; funny, touching, off-beat. Like his first collection, Equal Love deserves the laurels.' Literary Review

A heartbreaking, soul-baring novel about the repercussions of choice that "will strike a resonant chord with parents everywhere" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), from the award-winning author of The Welsh Girl and The Fortunes

The Fortunes reimagines the traditional multigenerational novel through the lens of immigrant experience. The family institution is revered in Chinese culture, but the historical reality of Chinese Americans has seen family bonds denied, fragmented, or imperiled. The Fortunes uses this history from the bachelor society of the gold rush era to laws against interracial marriage to the recent wave of adopted baby girls to create a portrait of a community whose line of descent is broken, yet which has tenaciously persisted, as much through love as by blood. Through four lives a railroad baron's valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood's first Chinese movie star, a victim of a hate crime that mobilizes Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption--this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history. These stories, three of which are inspired by real historical characters, examines the process of becoming not only Chinese American, but American

Set in the stunning landscape of North Wales just after D-Day, Daviess profoundly moving first novel traces a perilous wartime romance.

Peter Ho Davies ist ein junger Schriftsteller mit einer ungewöhnlich weltläufigen Perspektive. Er erzählt Geschichten, die nicht nur sein multinationales Erbe widerspiegeln, sondern auch in seltsamen Gegenüberstellungen Freude bereiten. In Erzählungen, die von Coventry nach Kuala Lumpur, von der Vergangenheit in die Gegenwart und von Heiterkeit zu Tragödie reisen, treiben amerikanische Banditen Strauße in Patagonien, britische Soldaten konfrontieren Zulus in Natal, und John Wayne führt lokale Revolutionäre in Südostasien an. Dies sind Geschichten, in denen kleine Leben von folgenreichen Ereignissen betroffen sind. In "A Union" spielt ein langanhaltender Streik in einem walisischen Schieferbruch mysteriöse Zeittricks mit einem Paar, das ein Baby erwartet. In "The Silver Screen" schließen sich zusammengewürfelte Rebellen einer kommunistischen Revolution mit dem Flair der Keystone Kops an. In der herzzerreißenden Titelgeschichte bewältigt eine ländliche Gemeinschaft in Nordwales den Unfalltod eines Kindes und lernt die Ausmaße von Schuld kennen. Mit ihrem tiefen Humanismus und spitzen Humor sind die Geschichten