Our Missing Hearts

The New York Times bestseller, a deeply heart-wrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child.'It's impossible not to be moved' Stephen King'Exceptionally powerful and scaldingly relevant' Observer'Stunning...this novel will break your heart and fire up your courage' Mail on Sunday'Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching' Reese WitherspoonTwelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. He doesn't know what happened to her-only that her books have been banned-and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old.

His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of heroic librarians, and finally to New York City, where he will finally learn the truth about what happened to his mother, and what the future holds for them both. Then one day, Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and soon he is pulled into a quest to find her. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice.

It's about the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and the power of art to create change.Číslo vydania 1Jazyky anglickyPočet strán 335Dátum uvedenia titulu 2023-04-27Rozmery 198x129x25Hmotnosť 278gTypPaperback