000 01139cam a2200205 4500
001 6325
020 _a9781783782666
100 1 _aThien, Madeleine,
_d1974.
_e
245 1 0 _aDo not say we have nothing /
_cMadeleine Thien
264 1 _aLondon :
_bGranta,
_c2016
300 _a473 pages ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 _aIn 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
650 0 _aFamilies
_zChina
_vFiction
650 0 _aIntergenerational relations
_vFiction
651 _aChina -- History -- Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 -- Fiction.
_v
_x
_y
_z
_2
651 0 _aChina
_xSocial life and customs
_vFiction
999 _c5335
_d5335