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Original Title:	Do Not Say We Have Nothing
ISBN:	039360988X (ISBN13: 9780393609882)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2016), Scotiabank Giller Prize (2016), Governor General's
Literary Awards:	/ Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Traduction (de l’anglais vers le français) by Catherine Leroux (2019) and for by English Fiction (2016), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2017), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2017) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2016), Rathbones Folio Prize Nominee (2017)

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Madeleine Thien

Hardcover | Pages: 474 pages

Rating: 3.91 | 16525 Users | 2463 Reviews

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“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, Marie and Ai-Ming. Through their relationship Marie strives to piece together the tale of her fractured family in present-day Vancouver, seeking answers in the fragile layers of their collective story. Her quest will unveil how Kai, her enigmatic father, a talented pianist, and Ai-Ming’s father, the shy and brilliant composer, Sparrow, along with the violin prodigy Zhuli were forced to reimagine their artistic and private selves during China’s political campaigns and how their fates reverberate through the years with lasting consequences.

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.

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Title	:	Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Author	:	Madeleine Thien
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 474 pages
Published	:	October 11th 2016 by W. W. Norton Company (first published May 31st 2016)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. China. Canada. Asia

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Ratings: 3.91 From 16525 Users | 2463 Reviews

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Hugely surprised this did not win the Booker Prize. If, like me, you know next to nothing about Chinas Cultural Revolution and the transition from Chairman Mao to successive leaders, you will learn so much. There is no denying the power of its portrayal of history. In addition, I was consistently impressed by the books language. Thien incorporates Chinese characters and wordplay, musical bars, and snatches of poetry and folk songs. That said, I didnt always find this easy reading. The flashbacks

Three generations in China, presented against the backdrop of three pivotal historic events: the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961), the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and the Tiananmen Square protests (1989). The three events were featured in the story with increasing detail. The Great Leap Forward had only passing references. It was a tragedy of mismanagement at a national level which resulted in the starvation of millions. There were more details on the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, where

If there's one thing I love it's a multigenerational family epic from a different culture, which is an actual genre that I only sortof made up. The thing with books like this is they give you a sweeping overview of a wide swath of history in someplace like, say, China - or Korean Japan, or Chile, or whatever - without being a boring nonfiction book. This one traces Chinese history from the Cultural Revolution of the 60s, which was awful, through to the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, which

A moving family saga that portrays the lives of three generations through the post-war decades in China. The story interlaces different time points with a focus on the crucial periods of Maos Cultural Revolution (1969-1977), set mostly in Shanghai, and of the time of the massive demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in Beijing and their brutal suppression (1989-1990). Like good historical fiction it does bring the cultural and political paroxysms of these times alive through engaging characters,



This is a sweeping, multi-generational, non-linear epic of a story. It starts in China in the late 1960's and goes to present day. It is complicated and wonderful and my personal favorite to win the 2016 Booker Prize. These characters really got under my skin and I will be thinking about them for a long time. This is a book that I would like to reread at some point because there are just so many layers.

I think there's always one book on Man Booker Long List that requires me to get a piece of paper and draw a family tree so that I can try to keep track of the relationships between the characters. I had to do that here and it's quite a demanding read not only because of the number of characters but also because the narrative jumps around in time following 3 generations through 3 momentous periods of Chinese history.Earlier this year, I read The Four Books when it was nominated for the Man Booker