The Farm
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2020
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-1-5266-0523-8 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-1-5266-0523-8 (ISBN)
A gripping story about race, money and motherhood that asks: what would you sacrifice for a new life?
'A firecracker of a novel'
Madeline Miller
'Intelligent, thought-provoking, slyly satirical'
Sunday Times
'About everything a book should be about: race and class, power and inequality - and it's dark and funny'
Joanna Cannon
'An unsettling, unputdownable read'
Elle
'Ramos has crafted a real page-turner' The Times
Ambitious businesswoman Mae Yu runs Golden Oaks - a luxury retreat transforming the fertility industry. There, women get the very best of everything: organic meals, fitness trainers, daily massages and big money. Provided they dedicate themselves to producing the perfect baby. For someone else.
Jane is a young immigrant in search of a better future. Stuck living in a cramped dorm with her baby daughter and her shrewd aunt Ate, she sees an unmissable chance to change her life. But at what cost?
Chosen as a book of the summer by the Guardian, Telegraph, Evening Standard and Cosmopolitan
'A firecracker of a novel'
Madeline Miller
'Intelligent, thought-provoking, slyly satirical'
Sunday Times
'About everything a book should be about: race and class, power and inequality - and it's dark and funny'
Joanna Cannon
'An unsettling, unputdownable read'
Elle
'Ramos has crafted a real page-turner' The Times
Ambitious businesswoman Mae Yu runs Golden Oaks - a luxury retreat transforming the fertility industry. There, women get the very best of everything: organic meals, fitness trainers, daily massages and big money. Provided they dedicate themselves to producing the perfect baby. For someone else.
Jane is a young immigrant in search of a better future. Stuck living in a cramped dorm with her baby daughter and her shrewd aunt Ate, she sees an unmissable chance to change her life. But at what cost?
Chosen as a book of the summer by the Guardian, Telegraph, Evening Standard and Cosmopolitan
Joanne Ramos was born in the Philippines and moved to Wisconsin when she was six. She graduated with a B.A. from Princeton University. After working in investment banking and private-equity investing, she became a staff writer at the Economist. She currently serves on the board of The Moth and lives in New York City with her family. The Farm, her debut novel, was a national bestseller, was chosen by over fifty international media outlets as a 'must read', and was longlisted for the Center of Fiction’s 2019 First Novel Prize.
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.05.2020 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Gewicht | 234 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5266-0523-6 / 1526605236 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5266-0523-8 / 9781526605238 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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