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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020America. In the twilight of the Gold Rush, two siblings cross a landscape with a gun in their hands and the body of their father on their backs . . . Ba dies in the night, Ma is already gone. Lucy and Sam, twelve and eleven, are suddenly alone and on the run. With their father''s body on their backs, they roam an unforgiving landscape dotted with giant buffalo bones and tiger paw prints, searching for a place to give him a proper burial.How Much of These Hills is Gold is a sweeping adventure tale, an unforgettable sibling story and a remarkable novel about a family bound and divided by its memories.''A daring and haunting epic'' SUNDAY TIMES''A unique reimagining of the American West adventure'' THE TIMES''A fierce, feminist Western'' DAILY MAIL''Remarkable'' HARPER''S BAZAAR''Reminiscent of both Cormac McCarthy and Toni Morrison'' IRISH TIMES''C Pam Zhang''s arresting, beautiful first novel is filled with myths of her own making as well as sorrows and joys'' NEW YORK TIMESA GWYNETH PALTROW BOOK CLUB PICK

An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape-trying not just to survive but to find a home. Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and glimpses of a different kind of future. Both epic and intimate, blending Chinese symbolism and reimagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story, an unforgettable sibling story, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page, it's about the memories that bind and divide families, and the yearning for home.

Brought to you by Penguin.A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the worldA smog has spread, food is disappearing, and a chef escapes her career in London to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony: an experiment in a new way of living and eating. There, her mysterious employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste and touch. Before long, she is pushed to discover the real nature of the project: a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the place.Land of Milk and Honey is a striking novel about food, sex and the intricacies of desire.''A startling prose hymn to food and sex, love and violence'' GUARDIAN''Unique, ambitious, haunting'' GABRIELLE ZEVIN''Truly exceptional'' ROXANE GAY''Superb'' DOUGLAS STUART''It’s hard not be mesmerised by prose that is as rich and as startling as the food her protagonist prepares'' OBSERVER''An astounding book'' CALEB AZUMAH NELSON''The most sensual novel about food I have ever read'' EMMA DONOGHUE©2023 C Pam Zhang (P)2023 Penguin Audio