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~ Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize - 2016, Governor General's Literary Award for English Fiction - 2016
Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations in Do Not Say We Have Nothing, a gripping evocation of the power and trauma of political revolution, and a magnificent tale of two vibrant families caught in the maelstrom.
With maturity and sophistication, humor and beauty, Thien has crafted a novel that is at once intimate and grandly political, rooted in the details of life inside China yet transcendent in its universality.
“A powerfully expansive novel, Thien writes with the mastery of a conductor who is as in command of the symphony’s tempo as she is attuned to the nuances of each individual instrument.” -- The New York Times