The Chosen and the Beautiful
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- 125,00 kr
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- 125,00 kr
Publisher Description
A Most Anticipated in 2021 Pick for Oprah Magazine | USA Today | Buzzfeed | Greatist | BookPage | PopSugar | The Nerd Daily | Goodreads | Literary Hub | Ms. Magazine | Library Journal
"Gatsby the way it should have been written—dark, dazzling, fantastical."—R. F. Kuang
"Luxurious, thrilling, and sexy."—Adrienne Celt
Immigrant. Socialite. Magician.
Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society—she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She’s also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her.
But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how.
Nghi Vo’s debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice.
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APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Press play on a magical reimagining of The Great Gatsby. Jordan Baker is just your average socialite in the 1920s New York party scene—aside from the fact that she was taken from Vietnam as a child, is attracted to both women and men, and makes paper cutouts that somehow come to life. When big shot Jay Gatsby seeks Jordan’s help reuniting with his now-married love Daisy, she’s pulled deep into his devilish world. Nghi Vo’s mesmerizing debut novel is stunning in its own right, exploring issues of race, gender, and sexuality that Fitzgerald likely never considered. Stripping the glitz and glamour from Gatsby, Vo gives her heroine a hardened exterior that hides a complex young woman’s quest to find acceptance in a world where she’s barely tolerated. Narrator Natalie Naudus reads the story with all the magic and danger it deserves. The Chosen and the Beautiful is a brilliant, fresh take on one of the 20th century’s defining tales.