Irene is a public policy major at Duke who can talk her way out of anything Daneil is pre-med with steady hands and dreams of being a surgeon. Will's crew, fellow students chosen out of his boundless optimism for their skills and loyalty, aren't exactly experienced criminals. He believes art belongs with its creators, so when a Chinese corporation offers him a (highly illegal) chance to reclaim five priceless sculptures, it's surprisingly easy to say yes. Will Chen, a Chinese American art history student at Harvard, has spent most of his life learning about the West-its art, its culture, all that it has taken and called its own. Even in this back room, dust catching the slant of golden late-afternoon light, Will could hear the sirens. This was how things began: Boston on the cusp of fall, the Sackler Museum robbed of 23 pieces of priceless Chinese art. A cinematic, entertaining and fast-paced debut novel that is part-Ocean's Eleven, part-The Social Network and part-Crazy Rich Asians, Portrait of a Thief is an addictive mix of heist and unlikely friendships by way of the politics of colonization.

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