Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel

Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel

<p><strong>Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award // Finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction<br /><br /> "A powerfully expansive novel€¦Thien writes with the mastery of a conductor." €•<em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p>€œIn 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.€</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>