Four Treasures of the Sky
The compelling debut about identity and belonging in the 1880s American West
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Four Treasures of the Sky
Narrated by:
Katharine Chin
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Narrated by:
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Katharine Chin
About this listen
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.
Critic Reviews
An engulfing, bighearted and heartbreaking novel. Illuminates shocking injustices, making us stop and consider how many survive to this day (Ann Patchett, author of Women's Prize longlisted The Dutch House)
An impressive and original debut
A sweeping adventure of identity, love and belonging (C Pam Zhang, Man Booker longlisted author of How Much of These Hills are Gold)
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. (Anna North, author of the New York Times bestseller Outlawed)
An instant and necessary classic, easily among the best novels of this past decade. The story lingers long after its final pages (T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls)
An astonishing novel propelled by private and public histories, rich with reflections on self-making, moral calling, great love, and profound injustice (Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning)
This unforgettable novel dazzles. An exhilarating rush of character, history and storytelling (Kali Fajardo-Anstine, US National Book Award finalist author of Sabrina & Corina)
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 (Juliet Grames, author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna)
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 (Julia Fine, author of The Upstairs House)
A lyrical and sweeping Bildungsroman, fierce and moving
I was just so engrossed in the story that I didn’t realise I was so close to end until it was upon me as I rode home on my bike from work,
I’m not sure if you’ve ever tried to cycle home through peak traffic in Melbourne Australia but it’s already pretty life and death, I didn’t need a curtain of unstoppable tears to add into the mix,
I want to say this story was fantastic but that is not the right way to describe it.
Maybe awesome is a better fit because I am in awe of the horrific and devastating history this book tells, the author has me in awe with her skills, the narrator was exactly what this character needed to reach out of this book and into my eyes,
I can see the barrel with the coal and the little tiny face
I can see the humans as they swing and I can hear the tightening of the rope as it takes the weight of its burden.
I wish I could unsee it because it makes it hard to remember not all humans are bad humans but this is a story that needs to be told
This is a history that needs to be remembered.
Acknowledged.
I wish I could change it
But I can’t so we need to hear it, to learn from it.
…will we learn from it?
Possible spoilers in this comment just a heads up
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Another expose of the worlds men being unable to rule over other men, following false gods
Will white America ever understand the world?
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