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The thousand crimes of Ming Tsu : a novel / Tom Lin.
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 him, aided by a troupe of magic-show performers, some with supernatural powers, whom they meet on the journey. Ming fights his way across the West, settling old scores with a single-minded devotion that culminates in an explosive and unexpected finale.
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- ISBN: 9780316542173
- ISBN: 0316542172
- ISBN: 9780316270588
- ISBN: 031627058X
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
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| Source of Description Note: | Title details screen (OverDrive, viewed June 7, 2021). |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. Fiction. Magic realist fiction. Western fiction. Western fiction. Magic realist fiction. |
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Tom Lin was born in China and immigrated to the United States when he was four. A graduate of Pomona College, he is currently in the PhD program at the University of California, Davis. The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu is his first novel.