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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art, by the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu "This book is exquisite and excruciating and I will be thinking about it for years and years to come." --Rachel Kushner, New York Times bestselling author of The Flamethrowers and The Mars Room In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken--with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity--is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who makes 'zines and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken have in common is that, however they engage with it, American culture doesn't seem to have a place for either of them. But despite his first impressions, Hua and Ken beco

《小提琴的陰謀》——美國《早安美國》讀書俱樂部選書雷・麥克米利恩是冉冉升起的黑人小提琴家，不畏種族歧視與傳統音樂界的偏見，全心追逐夢想。就在他準備參加世界級柴可夫斯基大賽時，他的傳家寶小提琴——一把無價的史特拉迪瓦里名琴——竟遭竊，並留下高達五百萬美元的贖金要求！從北卡羅來納州鄉間到全球音樂殿堂，雷奮力對抗偏見，突破困境，而如今，他不僅要奪回小提琴，更要向世界證明：無論結果如何，他始終是一位偉大的音樂家。「與《后翼棄兵》一樣精彩，充滿張力與熱血！」—《紐約時報》暢銷作家 克里斯·博哈利安GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! - Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise--undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world--when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather's heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world. "I loved The Violin Conspiracy for exactly the same reasons I loved The Queen's Gambit a surprising, beautifully rendered underdog hero I cared about deeply and a fascinating, cutthroat world I knew nothing about--in this case, classical music." --Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and Hour of the Witch Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian's li