num_pages: 256
description: "With God of Luck , Ruthanne Lum McCunn has turned her descriptive and sensitive storytelling skills to the little-known coolie trade to Peru. She beautifully combines the hardships and brutality of the kidnapping of a Chinese man, conditions on the slave ships, and the bitterness of back-breaking labor in a foreign land with the sadness and determination of the wife and family back home. Never separating history from its impact on individual people, McCunn has reached into her characters' hearts to bring readers a story of emotional depth and truth."-Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan "Once again Ruthanne Lum McCunn opens a window onto another little-known chapter in the history of Chinese experience in the Americas. With amazing detail and riveting power, Ah Lung's story will keep readers spellbound and cheering to the final page."-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, author of Farewell to Manzanar Ah Lung and his beloved wife, Bo See, are separated by a cruel fate when, like thousands of other Chinese men in the nineteenth century, he is kidnapped, enslaved, and shipped to the deadly guano mines off the coast of Peru. Using their wits and praying to the God of Luck, they never lose hope of someday being reunited. Ruthanne Lum McCunn is of Scottish and Chinese ancestry. She is the author of the classic Thousand Pieces of Gold , which has sold over two hundred thousand copies, as well as the novels The Moon Pearl and Wooden Fish Songs . She lives in San Francisco.
language: English
title: God of Luck
titlecomplete: God of Luck
genres: Historical Fiction, China
ratings_count: 52
publisher: Soho Press