{"product_id":"the-thousand-crimes-of-ming-tsu","title":"The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu","description":"\u003cp\u003eOrphaned young Ming Tsu the son of Chinese immigrants is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate who trains him to be his deadly enforcer. But when Ming falls in love with Ada the daughter of a powerful railroad magnate and the two elope he seizes the opportunity to escape to a different life. Soon after in a violent raid the tycoon's henchmen kidnap Ada and conscript Ming into service for the Central Pacific Railroad.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBattered heartbroken and yet defiant Ming partners with a blind clairvoyant known only as the prophet. Together the two set out to rescue his wife and to exact revenge on the men who destroyed Ming aided by a troupe of magic-show performers some with supernatural powers whom they meet on the journey. Ming blazes his way across the West settling old scores with a single-minded devotion that culminates in an explosive and unexpected finale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with the violent ardor of Cormac McCarthy and the otherworldly inventiveness of Ted Chiang \u003ci\u003eThe Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a thriller a romance and a story of one man's quest for redemption in the face of a distinctly American brutality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In Tom Lin's novel the atmosphere of Cormac McCarthy's West or that of the Coen Brothers' \u003ci\u003eTrue Grit\u003c\/i\u003e gives way to the phantasmagorical shades of Ray Bradbury Charles Finney's \u003ci\u003eThe Circus of Dr. Lao\u003c\/i\u003e and Katherine Dunn's \u003ci\u003eGeek Love\u003c\/i\u003e. Yet \u003ci\u003eThe Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu\u003c\/i\u003e has a velocity and perspective all its own and is a fierce new version of the Westward Dream.\" -Jonathan Lethem author of \u003ci\u003eMotherless Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44786521276595,"sku":"9780316542159","price":1704.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17477291609780316542159.jpg?v=1762803393","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/the-thousand-crimes-of-ming-tsu","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}