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03513aim a2200421Ka 4500 001 91B0F650223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240604012727 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 240525s2024 nyu s 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1669663329 020 $a 9781669663324 (sound recording) 040 $a TEFOD $c TEFOD $d SILO 084 $a FIC094020 $a FIC094020 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Wen, Lai. 245 10 $a Tiananmen square $h [electronic resource] : $b A novel. $c Lai Wen. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a Solon : $b Spiegel & Grau by Spotify Audiobooks, $c 2024. 300 $a 1 online resource (13 audio files) : $b digital 306 $a 15:20:27 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Narrator: Jocelyn Tam. 520 $a A stunning, deeply moving autobiographical novel about growing up in Beijing in the 1970s and 80s and taking part in Tiananmen Square protests It is Beijing in the 1970s, and Lai lives with her parents, grandmother and younger brother in a small flat in a working-class area. Her grandmother is a formidable figure – no-nonsense and uncompromising, but loving towards her granddaughter – while her ageing beauty of a mother snipes at her father, a sunken figure who has taken refuge in his work. As she grows up, Lai comes to discern the realities of the country she lives is: an early encounter with the police haunts her for years; her father makes her see that his quietness is a reaction to experiences he has lived through; and an old bookseller subtly introduces her to ideas and novels that open her mind to different perspectives. But she also goes through what anyone goes through when young – the ebbs and flows of friendships; troubles and rewards at home and at school; and the first steps and missteps in love. A gifted student, she is eventually given a scholarship to study at the prestigious Peking University; while there she meets new friends, and starts to get involved in the student protests that have been gathering speed. It is the late 1980s, and change is in the air... A truly remarkable novel about coming to see the world as it is, Tiananmen Square is the story of one girl's life growing up in the China of the 1970s and 80s, as well as the story of the events in 1989 that give the novel its name: the hope and idealism of a generation of young students, their heroism and courage, and the price that some of them paid. 538 $a Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. 650 17 $a Fiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Literature. $2 OverDrive 655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local 700 1 $a Tam, Jocelyn. 856 40 $u http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=251&titleID=10740764 $z Click to download here. 856 4 $3 Excerpt $u https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f49b97f2-04be-49a5-a935-813de051f5ad&.epub-sample.overdrive.com $z Sample 856 4 $3 Image $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/7552-1/%7BF49B97F2-04BE-49A5-A935-813DE051F5AD%7DIMG100.JPG $z Large cover image 856 4 $3 Thumbnail $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/7552-1/%7BF49B97F2-04BE-49A5-A935-813DE051F5AD%7DIMG200.JPG $z Thumbnail cover image 856 40 $3 Click for more information $u https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B0wAAAA2Z/products/f49b97f2-04be-49a5-a935-813de051f5ad $x 1370 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20240604014319.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=91B0F650223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search