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Descripton : a dazzling novel following the lives of three groundbreaking women marlene dietrich anna may wong and leni riefenstahl cinema legends who lit up the twentieth centuryat a chance encounter at a berlin soire in 1928 the photographer alfred eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame up and coming german actress marlene dietrich who would wend her way into hollywood as one of its lasting icons anna may wong the world s first chinese american star playing for bit parts while dreaming of breaking away from her father s modest laundry and leni riefenstahl whose work as a director would first make her famous then infamous from this curious point of intersection delayed rays of a star lets loose the trajectories of these women s lives from weimar berlin to la s chinatown from a seaside resort in east germany to a luxury apartment on the champs lyses the different settings they inhabit are as richly textured as the roles they play siren muse predator or lover each one a carefully calibrated performance and in the orbit of each star live secondary players a chinese immigrant housemaid a german soldier on leave from north africa a pompous hollywood director whose voices and viewpoints reveal the legacy each woman left in her own time as well as in ours amanda lee koe s playful wry prose guides the reader dexterously around murky questions of ego persona complicity desire and difference intimate and raw delayed rays of a star is a visceral depiction of womanhood its particular hungers its calculations and its eventual betrayals and announces a bold new literary voice