How Much of These Hills Is Gold
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.
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When their father dies in a Gold Rush mining town, twelve-year-old Lucy and her younger sibling Sam pack his body onto a borrowed horse and set out to bury him. The book bends back through their family.
How Much of These Hills Is Gold was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020 and was an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction selection. It was C Pam Zhang's debut novel.
Yes. The novel is a literary Western set during the California Gold Rush, following two Chinese-American children whose father has died and who are searching for a place to bury him. It reframes the Western through Asian American history.
How Much of These Hills Is Gold was written by C Pam Zhang, published in 2020 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.
How Much of These Hills Is Gold is 336 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, How Much of These Hills Is Gold takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a standalone novel by C Pam Zhang, not part of a series.
How Much of These Hills Is Gold is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
