02805cam a2200421 4500 1502067844 TxAuBib 20240813120000.0 211013t20222021||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020951409 9780316542142 paperback 0316542148 paperback (OCoLC)1275358944 TxAuBib Lin, Tom, 1996-, author. The thousand crimes of Ming Tsu / Tom Lin. First Back Bay trade paperback edition. New York, NY : Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, 2022. ©2021. 273 pages : map ; 21 cm. A Chinese American assassin sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact revenge on her abductors in this New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice: a twist on the classic western from "an astonishing new voice" (Jonathan Lethem). Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his deadly enforcer. But when Ming falls in love with Ada, the daughter of a powerful railroad magnate, and the two elope, he seizes the opportunity to escape to a different life. Soon after, in a violent raid, the tycoon's henchmen kidnap Ada and conscript Ming into service for the Central Pacific Railroad. Battered, heartbroken, and yet defiant, Ming partners with a blind clairvoyant known only as the prophet. Together the two set out to rescue his wife and to exact revenge on the men who destroyed Ming, aided by a troupe of magic-show performers, some with supernatural powers, whom they meet on the journey. Ming blazes his way across the West, settling old scores with a single-minded devotion that culminates in an explosive and unexpected finale. Written with the violent ardor of Cormac McCarthy and the otherworldly inventiveness of Ted Chiang, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu is at once a thriller, a romance, and a story of one man's quest for redemption in the face of a distinctly American brutality. 20240813. 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Assassins Fiction. Chinese Americans Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Clairvoyants Fiction. Kidnapping Fiction. Heroes Fiction. Revenge Fiction. California Fiction. Gangster fiction. lcgft Historical fiction. fast Western fiction. fast Thrillers (Fiction.) Western fiction. lcgft Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft