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Author:
Thien, Madeleine, 1974- author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001039857
Title:
Nous qui n'étions rien / Madeleine Thien ; traduit de l'anglais par Catherine Leroux.
Publisher:
Alto,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
539 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
1900-2002
Fathers--Death--Fiction.
Families--China--20th century--Fiction.
Families--Vancouver--Vancouver--History--Fiction.
Chinese--Canada--Fiction.
Intergenerational relations--Fiction.
Manners and customs.
Intergenerational relations.
Chinese.
Divorced fathers.
Families.
Fathers--Death.
Social conditions.
China--History--1949-1976--Fiction.
China--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
China--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
China--History--1976-2002--Fiction.
British Columbia--Vancouver.
Canada.
China.
Biographical fiction.
Epic fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Humorous fiction.
Social problem fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Social problem fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Epic fiction.
Fiction.
Other Authors:
Leroux, Catherine, 1979- translator. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/trl http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012016074
Other Titles:
Do not say we have nothing. French
Notes:
First published in English, in Canada, in 2016, as: Do not say we have nothing Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-540).
Summary:
"À Shanghai, pendant la Révolution culturelle, deux familles d'artistes nouent des liens que rien ne viendra briser. Des décennies plus tard, à Vancouver, une jeune femme entre­prend de reconstituer leur histoire à l'aide du Livre des traces, un roman sans début ni fin, à la fois fictif et véridique, qui semble renfermer toutes les vies possibles. Ainsi débute une étourdissante quête des origines entre les mailles de l'histoire, la vraie, et l'inventée. Dans cette saga d'une humanité renversante, Madeleine Thien dépeint la Chine, des années trente jusqu'au nouveau millénaire, de la place Tian'anmen jusqu'au désert de Gobi. Elle raconte aussi l'injuste silence autour des disparus, la résilience, la force de la mémoire, le pouvoir de la musique et de l'écriture. Roman total d'une minutie presque irréelle, Nous qui n'étions rien pose avec compassion une question à jamais pertinente : qu'est-ce qu'une société juste?" -- Page 4 of cover.
""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. With maturity and sophistication, humor and beauty, Thien has crafted a novel that is grandly political, gives the details of life inside China, has universal appeal." -- W.W. Norton
ISBN:
2896943307
9782896943302
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1060588168
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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