Do Not Say We Have Nothing
of Madeleine Thien
Description
âIn a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old.âMaster storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generationsâthose who lived through Maoâs Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square. At the center of this epic story are two young women, Marie and Ai-Ming. Through their relationship Marie strives to piece together the tale of her fractured family in present-day Vancouver, seeking answers in the fragile layers of their collective story. Her quest will unveil how Kai, her enigmatic father, a talented pianist, and Ai-Mingâs father, the shy and brilliant composer, Sparrow, along with the violin prodigy Zhuli were forced to reimagine their artistic and private selves during Chinaâs political campaigns and how their fates reverberate through the years with lasting consequences.With maturity and sophistication, humor and beauty, Thien has crafted a novel that is at once intimate and grandly political, rooted in the details of life inside China yet transcendent in its universality.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 474 pages
- Publisher W. W. Norton Company
- Publication Date October 11th 2016
- First Publication 05/31/16
- Language English
- ISBN 9780393609882
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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