Name: Beautiful Country: A Novel (en Inglés)
Price: 26320.00 CLP
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Author: Thornton, J. R.
ISBN: 9780062411914

portada Beautiful Country: A Novel (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

J. R. Thornton

Editorial

Harper Perennial

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.1 x 13.2 x 2.3 cm

Peso

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9780062411914

Categorías

Ficción deportiva
Novelas de amor contemporáneo
La llegada a la madurez

Beautiful Country: A Novel (en Inglés)

J. R. Thornton (Autor) · Harper Perennial · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Beautiful Country: A Novel (en Inglés)"

"This unsettling book about the moral encounter between America and China is a study of privilege, innocence, and risk. It is a tragedy of manners and a portrait of Beijing -- amplified and torqued and unmistakable."-- Evan Osnos, autor of Age of Ambition, winner of the National Book AwardA coming-of-age story set in modern day China centering on the friendship between an American and a Chinese boy who meet while training with Beijing's Junior National Tennis Team.Chase Robertson arrives in Beijing as a fourteen-year-old boy still troubled by the recent death of his older brother. He discovers a country in transition; a society in which the dual systems of Communist Era state control and an emerging entrepreneurial culture exist in paradox.A top ranked junior tennis player in the U.S., Chase joins the practices of the Beijing National Junior Tennis Team and is immersed in the brutal, cut-throat world of Chinese sport. It is a world in which gifted children are selected at the ages of six or seven for specialized sport schools where they devote their entire youth to the pursuit of athletic excellence and are paid as professionals by the state. Athletes find themselves compelled to do anything possible to succeed--right or wrong. Those who fail to reach the pinnacle are cast aside and are left facing a desperate future without hope.In China, Chase gains access to a culture rarely open to Westerners, and soon finds himself caught up in secrets. When his closest friend and teammate turns to him for help, Chase is faced with the dilemma of what to do when friendship, rules, and morals are in conflict.A big-hearted debut, Beautiful Country explores a friendship against the backdrop of a quickly changing country.