The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

<P><B>Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence<BR/>Finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award<BR/><BR/>A Chinese American assassin sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact revenge on her abductors in this <I>New York Times</I> Book Review Editors' Choice: a twist on the classic western from "an astonishing new voice" (Jonathan Lethem).</B></P><P>Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his deadly enforcer. But when Ming falls in love with Ada, the daughter of a powerful railroad magnate, and the two elope, he seizes the opportunity to escape to a different life. Soon after, in a violent raid, the tycoon's henchmen kidnap Ada and conscript Ming into service for the Central Pacific Railroad.</P><P>Battered, heartbroken, and yet defiant, Ming partners with a blind clairvoyant known only as the prophet. Together the two set out to rescue his wife and to exa