Diamond Head -

Cecily Wong

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2014

300 páginas

10h 0m

ISBN-1: 0

Somewhere between James Michener’s Hawaii and Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds, Cecily Wong’s DIAMOND HEAD narrates the breathtaking rise and fall of one wildly wealthy Chinese-Hawaiian family. Wong spans four generations and two continents as she unfolds the Leong story against history ranging from The Boxer Rebellion to Pearl Harbor, and 1960s Hawaii. At the core of this spellbinding saga is the old Chinese parable of “the red string of fate” – that cord which binds one intended beloved to her perfect match. But what’s less often discussed is what happens when an earlier generation makes a devastating mistake in love, yielding a punishing knot that is passed again and again down the family line. Structured around the funeral of Bohai Leong – son of Lin, nephew of Hong, husband to Amy, and father to Theresa – and criss-crossing time to share the overlapping stories which led all of these women to this particular moment, DIAMOND HEAD explores whether or not there’s such a thing as a legacy of the heart