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Do Not Say We Have Nothing Author: Madeleine Thien

ISBN: 9781783782673 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 480 Published: 6 April 2017 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 13.1 x 19.8 x 3.0 Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016

WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2016

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016

In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming. As her relationship with Marie deepens, Ai-Ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China, from the crowded teahouses in the first days of Chairman Mao's ascent to the Shanghai Conservatory in the 1960s and the events leading to the Beijing demonstrations of 1989.

It is a history of revolutionary idealism, music, and silence, in which three musicians, the shy and brilliant composer Sparrow, the violin prodigy Zhuli, and the enigmatic pianist Kai struggle during China's relentless Cultural Revolution to remain loyal to one another and to the music they have devoted their lives to. Forced to re-imagine their artistic and private selves, their fates reverberate through the ye...

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