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Author:

Jin, Ha, 1956- author.

Title:

A song everlasting / Ha Jin.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Pantheon Books,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

336 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Singers--Fiction.
Chinese--United States--Fiction.
Exiles--Fiction.

Summary:

"From the universally admired, award-winning author of Waiting and The Boat Rocker, an urgent, timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country as he works to find his way in the United States. After popular singer Yao Tian takes a private gig in New York at the end of a tour with his state-supported choir, expecting to pick up some extra cash for his daughter's tuition fund, the consequences of his choice spiral out of control. On his return to China, he is informed that the sponsors of the event were in support of Taiwan's secession and that he must deliver a formal self-criticism. When he is asked to forfeit his passport to his employer, he impulsively decides instead to return to New York to protest the government's threat to his artistic integrity. With the help of his old friend, Yabin, Tian's career begins to flourish in the United States. Soon placed on a government blacklist and thwarted by the State at every turn, it becomes increasingly clear that he may never return to China unless he denounces the freedoms that have made his new life possible. But Tian nevertheless insists on his identity as a performer, refusing to give up his art. Timely, moving, and important, A Song Everlasting is a story of hope in the face of hardship, from one of our most celebrated authors"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

152474879X
9781524748791

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1201693666

LCCN:

2020047331

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