TY - BOOK AU - Thien,Madeleine TI - Do not say we have nothing SN - 9781783782666 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Granta KW - Families KW - China KW - Fiction KW - Intergenerational relations KW - China -- History -- Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 -- Fiction KW - Social life and customs N2 - In Canada in 1991, ten year old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home. She is Ai-Ming, a young woman from China who has fled following the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square incident. As her relationship with Marie deepens she tells the story of her family in revolutionary China. This is an epic novel about the far- reaching effects of China's revolutionary history, told through the stories of two interlinked musical families, from the 1940s to the present day ER -