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Portrait of a Thief is the 2022 debut novel by Chinese American author Grace D. Li. It is on the New York Times Best Seller list and named a New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2022. [1] [2] Netflix acquired the rights to the book, and it is in development as a television series .
A thief: Daniel Liang, a premed student with steady hands just as capable of lockpicking as suturing. A getaway driver: Lily Wu, an engineering major who races cars in her free time. A hacker: Alex Huang, an MIT dropout turned Silicon Valley software engineer.
10 de may. de 2021 · May 10, 2021 8:30am. Grace Li Courtesy APA. Ahead of its publication — and following a highly competitive bidding war — Netflix has snapped up TV rights to Grace Li’s novel, Portrait of a...
5 de abr. de 2022 · Grace D. Li. 3.47. 27,869 ratings5,557 reviews. Ocean’s Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums; about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity. History is told by the conquerors.
8 de ago. de 2023 · Portrait of a Thief centers around Will Chen, a senior art history major at Harvard who is approached by a mysterious Chinese benefactor with a job offer: steal back valuable Chinese art that had been looted from Beijing centuries earlier.
8 de abr. de 2022 · Crime & Mystery. They Were College Friends. Now They’re Art Thieves. Grace D. Li’s debut, “Portrait of a Thief,” is both a heist novel and a reckoning. Pablo Amargo. Share full article....
29 de mar. de 2022 · Author and Stanford medical student Grace D. Li (Yi Li) Portrait of a Thief is her debut novel. It centers on the repatriation of “what the West stole”—12 zodiac statues pilfered from China’s former Old Summer Palace by British and French colonizers during the Second Opium War.
