Madeleine Thien
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The Book of Records
Why did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much tim? ina and her ailing father have taken refuge at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions, among them three volumes from The Great Lives of Voyagers encyclopaedia series. In this mysterious and shape-shifting building, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her unusual neighbours: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth-century Amsterdam; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany fleeing Nazi persecution; and Jupiter, a poet of Tang Dynasty China, and through their stories, she comes to understand the role of fate in history and the way that ideas can shape the world, and to face up to the cost wrought on her family and others by her father's betrayals. Profound, adventurous, and with extraordinary subtlety of thought, The Book of Records explores our search for home and the place of faith and humanity in our world. A work of huge originality and heft, it shows the great novelist Madeleine Thien at her most ambitious and enriching.
The Book of Records
Why did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much tim? ina and her ailing father have taken refuge at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions, among them three volumes from The Great Lives of Voyagers encyclopaedia series. In this mysterious and shape-shifting building, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her unusual neighbours: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth-century Amsterdam; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany fleeing Nazi persecution; and Jupiter, a poet of Tang Dynasty China, and through their stories, she comes to understand the role of fate in history and the way that ideas can shape the world, and to face up to the cost wrought on her family and others by her father's betrayals. Profound, adventurous, and with extraordinary subtlety of thought, The Book of Records explores our search for home and the place of faith and humanity in our world. A work of huge originality and heft, it shows the great novelist Madeleine Thien at her most ambitious and enriching.
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Marie a její matka žijí poklidným životem, když se na prahu jejich vancouverského bytu objeví mladá žena Aj-ming, která uprchla z Číny. Ta ve svém vyprávění předestírá na pozadí čínských dějin pohnuté osudy dvou uměleckých rodin, jež spojuje láska ke klasické hudbě. Příběh začínající prvními roky vlády Mao Ce-tunga a končící krvavým potlačením protestů v roce 1989 je strhující rodinnou kronikou, v níž se drama mísí s čirou krásou autorčina stylu.
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Marie a její matka žijí poklidným životem, když se na prahu jejich vancouverského bytu objeví mladá žena Aj-ming, která uprchla z Číny. Ta ve svém vyprávění předestírá na pozadí čínských dějin pohnuté osudy dvou uměleckých rodin, jež spojuje láska ke klasické hudbě. Příběh začínající prvními roky vlády Mao Ce-tunga a končící krvavým potlačením protestů v roce 1989 je strhující rodinnou kronikou, v níž se drama mísí s čirou krásou autorčina stylu.
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Marie a její matka žijí poklidným životem, když se na prahu jejich vancouverského bytu objeví mladá žena Aj-ming, která uprchla z Číny. Ta ve svém vyprávění předestírá na pozadí čínských dějin pohnuté osudy dvou uměleckých rodin, jež spojuje láska ke klasické hudbě. Příběh začínající prvními roky vlády Mao Ce-tunga a končící krvavým potlačením protestů v roce 1989 je strhující rodinnou kronikou, v níž se drama mísí s čirou krásou autorčina stylu.
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 In Canada in 1990, 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 years, with deep and lasting consequences for Ai-Ming - and for Marie. Written with exquisite intimacy, wit and moral complexity, Do Not Say We Have Nothing magnificently brings to life one of the most significant political regimes of the 20th century and its traumatic legacy, which still resonates for a new generation. It is a gripping evocation of the persuasive power of revolution and its effects on personal and national identity, and an unforgettable meditation on China today.
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