{"product_id":"delayed-rays-of-a-star-paperback","title":"Delayed Rays of a Star - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmanda Lee Koe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn NPR Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA CrimeReads Historical Fiction Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt a chance encounter at a Berlin soir e in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame: up-and-coming German actress Marlene Dietrich; Anna May Wong, the world's first Chinese American star; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a director of propaganda art films would first make her famous--then, infamous. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The trajectories of these women's lives wind from Weimar Berlin to LA's Chinatown, from the Bavarian Alps to the Champs- lys es, and the different settings they inhabit are as richly textured as the roles they play: siren, victim, predator, or lover, each one a carefully calibrated performance. In the orbit of each star live secondary players whose voices and viewpoints reveal the legacy each woman left behind. Intimate and clear-eyed, this is a visceral depiction of womanhood--its particular hungers, its oblique calculations, and its eventual betrayals.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAMANDA LEE KOE was the fiction editor of \u003ci\u003eEsquire Singapore\u003c\/i\u003e, an honorary fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and the youngest winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for the story collection \u003ci\u003eMinistry of Moral Panic\u003c\/i\u003e. Her working manuscript for \u003ci\u003eDelayed Rays of a Star\u003c\/i\u003e won the Henfield Prize, awarded to the best work of fiction by a graduating MFA candidate at Columbia University. Born in Singapore, she lives in New York. This is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 7.8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769271943456,"sku":"9780525564546","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8728522d1dca5d2e9dc9e66e242d9824.webp?v=1780344811","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/delayed-rays-of-a-star-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}