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'Fresh energetic and completely hilarious The Wangs vs. the World is my favorite debut of the year.' Jami Attenberg author of Saint Mazie and The Middlesteins

Charles Wang has just lost the cosmetics fortune he built up since emigrating to the US. Gone are the houses the cars and the incredible lifestyle. Faced with this loss he decides to take his family on a trip to China and attempt to reclaim his ancestral lands.

But first they must go on a cross-country journey from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the Upstate New York retreat of his eldest daughter Saina. Charles takes his other two children out of schools that he can no longer afford and packs them into the only car that wasn't repossessed - along with their wealth-addicted stepmother Barbra.

But with his son waylaid by a much older temptress in New Orleans his wife ready to defect for a set of 1 000-thread-count sheets and an epic smash-up in North Carolina Charles may have to choose between the old world and the new between keeping his family intact and finally finally fulfilling his dream of China.
'Fresh energetic and completely hilarious The Wangs vs. the World is my favorite debut of the year.' Jami Attenberg author of Saint Mazie and The Middlesteins

Charles Wang has just lost the cosmetics fortune he built up since emigrating to the US. Gone are the houses the cars and the incredible lifestyle. Faced with this loss he decides to take his family on a trip to China and attempt to reclaim his ancestral lands.

But first they must go on a cross-country journey from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the Upstate New York retreat of his eldest daughter Saina. Charles takes his other two children out of schools that he can no longer afford and packs them into the only car that wasn't repossessed - along with their wealth-addicted stepmother Barbra.

But with his son waylaid by a much older temptress in New Orleans his wife ready to defect for a set of 1 000-thread-count sheets and an epic smash-up in North Carolina Charles may have to choose between the old world and the new between keeping his family intact and finally finally fulfilling his dream of China.
Über den Autor
Jade Chang has covered arts and culture for publications like Metropolis Magazine (where she was the West Coast Editor for several years), the BBC, the Los Angeles Times magazine, Glamour, and others. She recently worked at Goodreads. The Wangs VS The World is her first novel.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 355 S.
ISBN-13: 9780241975305
ISBN-10: 0241975301
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Chang, Jade
Hersteller: Penguin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Jade Chang
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.06.2017
Gewicht: 0,44 kg
Artikel-ID: 134113271

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