"In 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."Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations--those who liv...

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1. Verfasser:	Thien, Madeleine 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York W.W. Norton & Company 2016
Ausgabe:	First American edition
Schlagworte:	Families / China / Fiction Intergenerational relations / Fiction FICTION / Literary FICTION / Historical FICTION / Family Life Families Intergenerational relations Manners and customs Alltag, Brauchtum China / Social life and customs / Fiction China Fiktionale Darstellung
Zusammenfassung:	"In 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."Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations--those who lived through Mao's 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-Ming's father, the shy and brilliant composer, Sparrow, along with the violin prodigy Zhuli, were forced to reimagine their artistic and private selves during China's political campaigns and how their fates reverberate through the years with lasting consequences
Beschreibung:	473 Seiten 25 cm
ISBN:	9780393609882