01982cam a2200277Ii 4500001001300000003000600013007000300019008004100022020002200063020002500085035002100110090002300131100002900154245006200183260004700245300001900292500003400311504004100345520100700386586004801393586007801441586004801519942001401567952010801581999001501689ocn971361138OCoLCta210222s2017    nyuaj    b    000 1 eng d  a0393354725 (pbk.)  a9780393354720 (pbk.)  a(OCoLC)971361138  aFicb.T442D66 20171 aThien, Madeleine,d1974-10aDo not say we have nothing :ba novel /cMadeleine Thien.  aNew York :bW. W. Norton & Company,c2017.  a473 p. :bill.  aIncludes reading group guide.  aIncludes bibliographical references.  a"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.  aShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2016.  aWinner of the 2016 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.  aWinner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize.  2localcBK  00104070aPNLIBbPNLIBcGENd2021-06-17oFic .T442D66 2017pPNLIB21061185r2021-06-17w2021-06-17yBK  c1371d1371