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Four Treasures of the Sky: A Novel Audiobook

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Read By: Katharine Chin, Jenny Tinghui Zhang Publisher: Macmillan Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 8.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: April 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781250837530

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

61

Longest Chapter Length:

46:45 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

29 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

12:06 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and editor.

A propulsive and dazzling debut novel set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Act, about a Chinese girl fighting to claim her place in the 1880s American West


Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and forced across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains, 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.

At once a literary tour de force and a groundbreaking work of historical fiction, Four Treasures of the Sky announces Jenny Tinghui Zhang as an indelible new voice. Steeped in untold history and Chinese folklore, this novel is a spellbinding feat.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

"Jenny Tinghui Zhang uses her considerable talents to illuminate the shocking injustices the Chinese in this country suffered in the 1800s, and in doing so, makes us stop and consider how much of that cruelty and injustice survive to this day. Four Treasures of the Sky is an engulfing, bighearted, and heartbreaking novel."—Ann Patchett

“In a sweeping adventure that spans China and the American West, Jenny Tinghui Zhang has crafted a thoughtful story of identity, love, and belonging.”—C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills Is 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, New York Times bestselling author of Outlawed

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“The prides and prejudices of the Old West blaze to life in Zhang’s propulsive, fable-like novel…suggesting that language is our most potent weapon against oppression.”

— Oprah Daily

Quotes

  • “Zhang’s transporting story of perseverance in the face of shocking injustice resonates across cultures and also feels sadly relevant to today’s world.”

    — Washington Post
  • “An engulfing, bighearted, and heartbreaking novel.”

    — Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author
  • “This book is haunting, luscious, and precise—it’s historical fiction as we most want and need it to be.”

    — Julia Fine, author of The Upstairs House

Awards

  • A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
  • An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
  • Among longlisted titles for Shelf Awareness Best Books of the Year, 2022
  • Among longlisted titles for New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2022
  • Among longlisted titles for Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2022
  • Among longlisted titles for Shelf Awareness Best Books of the Year, 2022
  • Among longlisted titles for New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2022
  • Among longlisted titles for Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2022

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About Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Jenny Tinghui Zhang is a Texas-based Chinese-American writer who is a prose editor at Adroit Journal and has written nonfiction for The Cut, Bustle, Huffington Post, and more. Her fiction has appeared in Ninth Letter, Passages North, The Rumpus, among others.