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Overview"A sweeping rags-to-riches story about claiming the American Dream, following a family transformed by the Klondike Gold Rush. ""Told in glimmering prose and rich with historical detail...you can feel the grit on your hands.""--Celeste Ng ""Smart, surprising, and epic.""--Chris Bohjalian The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. But when her elder sister's husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice joins a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike, thus beginning a generations-long family quest for wealth that unfolds against the icy Canadian wilderness and the booming oilfields of California. One hundred years later, in 2015, Alice's great-great-granddaughter Anna must grapple with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations peoples who paid the price for its creation. Bringing the Klondike and turn-of-the-century California to vivid life, Ariel Djanikian weaves an ambitious narrative of claiming the American Dream and its rippling effects across generations. Sweeping and awe-inspiring, The Prospectors is an unforgettable story of family loyalties that interrogates the often-overlooked hostilities and inequities born during the Gold Rush era." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ariel DjanikianPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint: Collins Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.481kg ISBN: 9780063289734ISBN 10: 0063289733 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 03 October 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsFast-paced...Exciting to read...The Office of Mercy is an indisputable page-turner with a surprising ending. -- NPR I gulped this startlingly smart debut down, unable to stop before I found out what happened to brave Natasha and her America-Five compatriots. -- Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow, on The Office of Mercy Intriguing premise... [a] thoughtful debut. -- Publishers Weekly on The Office of Mercy An action-packed novel of fascinating ideas.... Serious, entertaining, and seriously entertaining. -- Charles Yu, National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown, on The Office of Mercy """Fast-paced...Exciting to read...The Office of Mercy is an indisputable page-turner with a surprising ending."" -- NPR ""I gulped this startlingly smart debut down, unable to stop before I found out what happened to brave Natasha and her America-Five compatriots."" -- Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow, on The Office of Mercy ""Intriguing premise... [a] thoughtful debut."" -- Publishers Weekly on The Office of Mercy ""An action-packed novel of fascinating ideas.... Serious, entertaining, and seriously entertaining."" -- Charles Yu, National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown, on The Office of Mercy" Author InformationAriel Djanikian holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan and is also the author of The Office of Mercy. Her work has been published in Tin House, The Paris Review, The Rumpus, The Millions, and elsewhere. She has received a Fulbright and a Hopwood, among other awards. She teaches at Georgetown University and lives near Washington, DC, with her family. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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