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Bird Gardner es un niño de doce años que lleva una vida aparentemente tranquila con un padre cariñoso pero atormentado, que trabaja como bibliotecario en la Universidad de Harvard. Durante una década y tras años de inestabilidad económica y violencia callejera, el gobierno de Estados Unidos ha aprobado leyes para preservar la «cultura americana». Con la excusa de mantener la paz y recuperar la prosperidad, las autoridades pueden separar a los hijos de los disidentes y además se han prohibido los libros considerados antipatrióticos, entre ellos la obra de la madre de Bird, Margaret Miu, una poeta estadounidense de origen chino que abandonó a su familia cuando este tenía nueve años. Pero, cuando el muchacho recibe una carta misteriosa que contiene solo un dibujo críptico, toma la decisión de encontrarla.
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En Shaker Heights, una tranquila y próspera zona residencial de Cleveland, todo está planeado, desde el trazado de las carreteras, hasta el color de las casas, incluso el éxito de la vida futura de sus vecinos. Nadie encarna mejor este espíritu que Elena Richardson, cuya vida se rige por un principio fundamental: jugar siempre dentro de las reglas sociales. Cuando Mía Warren ?una artista enigmática con un pasado misterioso? llega a esta idílica burbuja con Pearl, su hija adolescente, empieza la historia que las colocará a ambas en dos extremos dramáticamente opuestos.
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Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. 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.Then one day Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and soon he is pulled into a quest to find her. 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 learn the truth about what happened to his mother and what the future holds for them both.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.
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From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply heartwrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear.
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Lydia está muerta. Pero esto aún no lo saben. Así empieza este impresionante thriller literario. Todo sucede en los 70 en una pequeña y tranquila ciudad de Ohío donde todo el mundo se conoce. Y los primeros pasos: Una joven desaparecida, un lago cercano a su casa, un chico con mala fama que fue el último que estuvo con ella. En este territorio familiar Celeste Ng desarrolla de una historia que, como dice el New York Times, es muy diferente de las que habíamos visto hasta ahora en la literatura norteamericana. Todo lo que no te conté trata los Lees, las relaciones entre el matrimonio, sus problemas para integrarse y las ilusiones que ambos concentran en Lydia que ha heredado los ojos azules de su madre y los rasgos chinos de su padre. Y de lo caro que se paga ser la hija preferida.
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Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down.In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town - and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at an unexpected and devastating cost...
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Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down.In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs.
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