How Much of These Hills is Gold: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

'A ravishingly written revisionist story of the making of the West, C Pam Zhang's debut is pure gold' Emma Donoghue, Booker-shortlisted author of Room

'Intuitive, chewy, wonderful; the plot is devastating, and the talent is dazzling. Zhang is a blazing writer' Daisy Johnson, Booker-shortlisted author of Everything Under

'Zhang writes with the clear-eyed lucidity of ancient myth-makers whose eyes are attuned to the vicissitudes of nature and humanity. Her characters inhabit this universe with a distinct and memorable presence that will haunt readers in this riveting and truly remarkable debut' Chigozie Obioma, Booker-shortlisted author of An Orchestra of Minorities

'This exhilarating novel unweaves the myths of the American West and offers in their place a gorgeous, broken, soulful, feral song of family and yearning, origin and earth. C Pam Zhang is a brilliant, fearless writer. This book is a wonder' Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You

'C Pam Zhang's debut is ferocious, dark and gleaming, a book erupting out of the interstices between myth and dream, between longing and belonging. How Much of These Hills Is Gold tells us that stories - like people, like the rough and stunning landscape of California itself--are constantly in the process of being made, broken, and finally remade into something tender and new' Lauren Groff, New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies