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Portrait of a Thief
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize
Named a New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2022
Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by *Marie Claire* *Washington Post* *Vulture* *NBC News* *Buzzfeed* *Veranda* *PopSugar* *Paste* *The Millions* *Bustle* *Crimereads* Goodreads* *Bookbub* *Boston.com* and more!
"The thefts are engaging and surprising, and the narrative brims with international intrigue. Li, however, has delivered more than a straight thriller here, especially in the parts that depict the despair Will and his pals feel at being displaced, overlooked, underestimated, and discriminated against. This is as much a novel as a reckoning."
—New York Times Book Review
Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums; about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity
History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now.
Will Chen plans to steal them back.
A senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major and sometimes artist, the eldest son who has always been his parents' American Dream. But when a mysterious Chinese benefactor reaches out with an impossible—and illegal—job offer, Will finds himself something else as well: the leader of a heist to steal back five priceless Chinese sculptures, looted from Beijing centuries ago.
His crew is every heist archetype one can imagine—or at least, the closest he can get. A con artist: Irene Chen, a public policy major at Duke who can talk her way out of anything. A thief: Daniel Liang, a premed student with steady hands just as capable of lockpicking as suturing. A getaway driver: Lily Wu, an engineering major who races cars in her free time. A hacker: Alex Huang, an MIT dropout turned Silicon Valley software engineer. Each member of his crew has their own complicated relationship with China and the identity they've cultivated as Chinese Americans, but when Will asks, none of them can turn him down.
Because if they succeed? They earn fifty million dollars—and a chance to make history. But if they fail, it will mean not just the loss of everything they've dreamed for themselves but yet another thwarted attempt to take back what colonialism has stolen.
Equal parts beautiful, thoughtful, and thrilling, Portrait of a Thief is a cultural heist and an examination of Chinese American identity, as well as a necessary critique of the lingering effects of colonialism.
Reseñas de la Crítica
“A number of heist and con artist novels published this year grappled with larger socioeconomic and racial injustice. The best and most entertaining of these was Grace D. Li’s debut, Portrait of a Thief, which juxtaposes thrilling international antiquities heists against a layered examination of what it is to be displaced, overlooked and underestimated.”
—New York Times, Best Crime Novels of 2022
"A heist caper...that turns on breakneck action, fast cars and a thoughtful exploration of Western colonialism and the complexities of Chinese diaspora identities."
—Los Angeles Times
"Beneath its glitzy European museum settings, late-night street races, sexual tensions and a plot involving an enigmatic Chinese billionaire, Grace D. Li’s debut art-heist novel, Portrait of a Thief, ...wrestles with some weighty questions about cultural repatriation and the legacy of colonial crimes."
—San Francisco Chronicle
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Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn’t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. Through a kaleidoscope of women—a mother, a sister, a homicide detective—we learn the story of Ansel’s life.
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Beware of the second person singular here!
- De LS en 02-02-22
De: Danya Kukafka
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Disorientation
- A Novel
- De: Elaine Hsieh Chou
- Narrado por: Jennifer Kim
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou and never read about “Chinese-y” things again. But after years of grueling research, all she has to show for her efforts are a junk food addiction and stomach pain. When she accidentally stumbles upon a curious note in the Chou archives one afternoon, it looks like her ticket out of academic hell.
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Exceptional
- De Zach Chitwood en 05-12-22
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Open Water
- De: Caleb Azumah Nelson
- Narrado por: Caleb Azumah Nelson
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
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Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists - he a photographer, she a dancer - trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence.
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Second person POV releases poignant perspective
- De Storytellersrus en 09-25-21
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Severance
- A Novel
- De: Ling Ma
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York.
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4.19 stars
- De ibillinsly@gmail en 12-06-18
De: Ling Ma
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Matrix
- A Novel
- De: Lauren Groff
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her.
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Wonderful story well written and narratives
- De ReallyNelie en 09-25-21
De: Lauren Groff
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The School for Good Mothers
- A Novel
- De: Jessamine Chan
- Narrado por: Catherine Ho
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices. She can’t persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida finally attain the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has, but she is just enough.
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What in the world?
- De Love2Read en 01-11-22
De: Jessamine Chan
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Violeta
- A Novel
- De: Isabel Allende, Frances Riddle
- Narrado por: Yareli Arizmendi
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.
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Not my favorite....
- De Pat Brett en 02-14-22
De: Isabel Allende, y otros
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Elektra
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Saint
- Narrado por: Beth Eyre, Jane Collingwood, Julie Teal
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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When Clytemnestra marries Agamemnon, she ignores the insidious whispers about his family line, the House of Atreus. But when, on the eve of the Trojan War, Agamemnon betrays Clytemnestra in the most unimaginable way, she must confront the curse that has long ravaged their family. In Troy, Princess Cassandra has the gift of prophecy, but carries a curse of her own: No one will ever believe what she sees. When she is shown what will happen to her beloved city when Agamemnon and his army arrives, she is powerless to stop the tragedy from unfolding.
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The Fall Of The House Of Atreus
- De Stefan Filipovits en 05-04-22
De: Jennifer Saint
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Perfume
- The Story of a Murderer
- De: Patrick Süskind, John E. Woods - translator
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 9 h
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In the slums of 18th-century France, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift - an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects. Then one day, he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume" - the scent of a beautiful young virgin.
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This is an unusual, highly entertaining story.
- De Kay Tracy en 02-13-19
De: Patrick Süskind, y otros
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Ring Shout
- De: P. Djèlí Clark
- Narrado por: Channie Waites
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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In 1915, The Birth of a Nation casts a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die.
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The best story from a master mythmaker
- De Felicia J en 10-22-20
De: P. Djèlí Clark
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Book of Night
- De: Holly Black
- Narrado por: Sara Amini
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn’t pick, a book she couldn’t steal, or a bad decision she wouldn’t make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie Hall.
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Just what I was expecting, but maybe not for all
- De Ollie Oxyn Free en 05-11-22
De: Holly Black
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Nightbitch
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Yoder
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's demands, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck. In the mirror, her canines suddenly look sharper than she remembers. Her husband, who travels for work five days a week, casually dismisses her fears from faraway hotel rooms.
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If you don’t get it just say so
- De Stephanie Rzonca en 02-19-22
De: Rachel Yoder
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If We Were Villains
- A Novel
- De: M. L. Rio
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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Oliver Marks has just served 10 years in jail - for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago.
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Fake deep with a side of bland
- De Amazon Customer en 06-14-18
De: M. L. Rio
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- CKD
- 06-15-22
Well paced and good character development
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I usually like a good whodunit best, but this book was very well paced, held my interest and I cared about the characters. Very cool story and a twist at the end! You won’t be disappointed if you choose to listen to this book!
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- Stacy
- 03-16-23
I hope they make this book into a movie.
The book is slow but steady. But very much wins the race! A good listen indeed.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-10-22
Surprising climax ending
Such a page-turner that get me hooked from the beginning. The book has all the expected excitements and suspensions. Yet, there are more. The second generation of Chinese immigrants’ struggle to fit in and searching for their positions is vividly leap out of the pages. Then, there comes the climax ending, logical and a complete surprise at the same time. Brilliant.
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- judy eisen
- 10-13-22
Fine ideas unrealized
Grace D. Li's story centers on the repatriation of art from museums in imperialistic countries back to their countries of origin. She also writes of the struggles that Chinese-American young people have juggling their parents' expectations and their need to succeed in America.
The plot around these ideas is difficult to believe, and the writing is awkward in many places. She tries to bring romance into the story, but her descriptions of romantic interactions are very repetitious. Phrases such as "lightly touch his/her cheekbones", the voice going soft etc. etc. become tedious.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-31-22
GOOD!
A fun time, but I felt like the narrator could have been more enthusiastic
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- Alex Reynolds
- 02-14-23
Great narration
Story line was meh. Some things I really liked, some I did not. Easy listen.
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- Nancy
- 08-11-23
An implausible heist story
I never really connected with the story. The heist and the outcome seem a little implausible. Especially the end where Daniel was rewarded with his picture in the Sackler museum!
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- Jean
- 05-19-22
It was ok
I tried to return the book part way through but for some reason couldn’t so I persevered. Character development was great and the story had a lot of potential. I liked the way things are resolved (no spoilers). For me it lacked action but definitely had the element of deep friendships which I love in a book.
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- Lilach
- 05-31-22
Beautiful
I loved this book! I enjoyed the story, the writing, the relationships between the figures, and the ending. I highly recommend this book.
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- Mike
- 07-22-22
So much potential
This story and concept are super interesting! I love the idea of a college student heist. The author made each of the five main characters interesting and represent five different Chinese American experiences. HOWEVER, the execution was lacking. Several times I felt like I was listening to a first draft. A lot of the internal musings of the main characters were incredibly receptive and “told” me a lot that could have been “shown” to me in a more interesting way. I found myself editing the writing in my head while listening. “It had been ten years” and “after ten years” to describe the relationship between three characters got old in its repetition. I honestly hope she does a revised edition! I would read it. Also would make a great movie with some cleaned up dialogue and a medium that would force you to cut the annoying repetitive musings about being almost done with college and not knowing what comes next.
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