5/24/2023 0 Comments Madeleine thien do not say![]() ![]() With the ease and skill of a master storyteller, 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 in the mid-twentieth century and the children of the survivors, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square in 1989, in one of the most important political moments of the past century. ![]() Madeleine Thien’s new novel is breathtaking in scope and ambition even as it is hauntingly intimate. Shanghai seemed, like a library or even a single book, to hold the universe within itself.” ![]()
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