![]() ![]() If Will and his crew can recover all five pieces, they’ll split a $50 million payout. The novel’s title, therefore, refers to not only the idealistic heisters, but also the art museums that knowingly purchased China’s stolen artifacts. These real-life fountainheads were looted from Beijing’s Old Summer Palace by the French and British in 1860 during the Second Opium War. Will and four other Chinese American college students-Will’s sister and several acquaintances-have been contracted by China’s youngest billionaire, the CEO of a shadowy company called China Poly, to steal five bronze fountainheads from museums around the world and return them to China. The problem: He’s actually running the heist. He quickly finds himself caught up in the investigation. While working at Harvard’s Sackler Museum, Will Chen, a senior majoring in art history, witnesses a robbery of Chinese art. A debut novel calls out institutionalized imperialism in the Western world. ![]()
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