![]() A thief: Daniel Liang, a premed student with steady hands just as capable of lockpicking as suturing. A conman: Irene Chen, Will’s sister and a public policy major at Duke, who can talk her way out of anything. His crew is every heist archetype one can imagine-or at least, the closest he can get. ![]() But when a shadowy Chinese corporation reaches out with an impossible-and illegal-job offer, Will finds himself something else as well: the leader of a heist to steal back five priceless Chinese sculptures, looted from Beijing centuries ago. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now.Ī senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major and sometimes artist, the eldest son that has always been his parents’ American Dream. Summary: 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. ![]() A post shared by Illumicrate Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. ![]()
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