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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

Evan Osnos

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China is a non-fiction book by Evan Osnos, a staff writer at The New Yorker. Age of Ambition chronicles the lives of people that Osnos came to know while he was in China from 2005 to 2013. Age of Ambition was originally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2014. The book was awarded the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2014 and was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

Society & CultureSociety & Culture · medium confidenceSociety & Culture81 signalsLlm Classifier: Society & Culture -> Society & CultureTopic Classifier: Memoir & Personal History -> Memoir & AutobiographyKeyword Classifier: Religion -> ReligionMemoir & Personal HistoryAsia & the PacificBusiness, Capitalism & CorporationsTravel, Exploration & Place

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for NonfictionMajor2014WinnerSecondary source
Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionMajor2015FinalistSecondary source
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