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Sensuous and surprising, joyous and bitingly sharp, told in language as alluring as it is original, Land of Milk and Honey lays provocatively bare the ethics of seeking pleasure in a dying world. It is a daringly imaginative exploration of desire and deception, privilege and faith, and the roles we play to survive. Most of all, it is a love letter to food, to wild delight, and to the transformative power of a woman embracing her own appetite.

In the American West, during the Gold Rush, Lucy and Sam leave town with a gun in their hands and the body of their father on their backs. The siblings seek out a new way to live, but will their secrets bring them together or break them apart?

Ночью умирает Ба. Ма нет уже давно. Вмиг осиротевшие Люси и Сэм оказываются совсем одни — затерянные на просторах земель, где все кажется чужим. В поисках подходящего места для могилы отца они отправляются в путешествие, прочь от злобы жителей шахтерского городка — к открытым равнинам, желтой кромке горизонта, змеящимся вдалеке холмам, — и новым надеждам. В этой книге сплетаются мифический символизм китайской культуры и терпкий дух Калифорнийской золотой лихорадки. "Сколько золота в этих холмах" — роман о приключениях, о сестринской любви, о страхе, боли, принятии, наследии и истории. «Сколько золота может быть в этих холмах» — дебютный…

An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape--trying not just to survive but to find a home. Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and glimpses of a…