K. X. Song

An Echo in the City (eBook, ePUB)

From the author of The Night Ends with Fire

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST YA BOOK OF 2023 WINNER OF THE FREEMAN AWARD 2023 'Read this; you'll walk away changed.' Grace D. Li Falling in love was never part of the plan. SUMMER, 2019 When Phoenix attends a protest rally with her older brother, it ignites a fire in her she didn't know she had. The island city she loves is disappearing and she's determined to capture the moment with her camera. Kai is training to be a policeman and thinks the protesters are spoilt and privileged. He hopes to earn recognition at the Academy by going undercover and infiltrating their network. Phoenix and Kai accidentally swap phones at a student protest encounter. Sparks fly, drawing them together even as they stand on different sides of the struggle. But when love is built on a lie, what chance does it have to survive? 'I could not put it down and haven't stopped thinking about it since I finished. A must read.' Susan Lee, author of Seoulmates 'An honest and searing portrait of the Hong Kong protests.' Axie Oh, author of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea 'A richly detailed and humane teen romance.' Suzi Feay

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780861547395
• Artikelnr.: 67865976

Autorenporträt

K. X. Song is a diaspora writer with roots in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Raised between cultures and languages, she enjoys telling stories that touch on collective memory, translation, and the shifting nature of memory and history. A Highlights Foundation Fellow and H.G. Wells Turnill Prize honoree, she has been awarded residencies at the Ragdale Foundation and the Anderson Center at Tower View. She is currently based in the San Francisco Ba Area, where she can often be found queueing for dim sum. An Echo in the City is her debut novel. You can visit her online at kxsong.com.