Books by Lan Samantha Chang and Complete Book Reviews
Lan Samantha Chang, Author . Norton $23.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-393-05919-9
A complicated sister bond echoes through generations in this somber follow-up to Chang's well-received debut novella and stories, Hunger
. In China in the early 1930s, sisters Junan and Yinan are inseparable, even as Junan matures into beauty...
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Lan Samantha Chang, read by Ramon De Ocampo, HighBridge, unabridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $26.95 ISBN 978-1-61573-560-0
Despite a fine performance by Ramon De Ocampo, Chang's novel makes a poor transition to audio. When Roman and Bernard, two poetry students at a prestigious writing school, vie for the approval of their renowned professor, Miranda Sturgis, they find...
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Lan Samantha Chang. Norton, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-86807-4
Chang follows up All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost with an ingenious and cunning reboot of Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. The harrowing and humorous family drama is wrapped in a murder mystery about a family of Chinese immigrants headed by...
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