Madeleine Thien is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.
She was educated at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. In 2001 Madeleine was awarded the Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award for most promising writer under age 30.
Thien's first book, Simple Recipes (2001), a collection of short stories, received the City of Vancouver Book Award, the VanCity Book Prize and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her novel, Certainty, has been published internationally. It won the Amazon.com / Books in Canada First Novel Award and was a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize.
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 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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终于啃完了。有一段时间没有接触这种以家族命运为线索贯穿共和国历史的小说了,没有拐弯抹角的避雷,也没有小心翼翼的顾及,对于某个历史事件的详尽描述也足够客观。有几个角色模糊了一点,干脆舍弃一些线索也许会更好。喜欢作者选取的角度:背负着历史的人民,把历史注入血液中一代代传了下去,官方的注脚只能覆盖表面,内里的真实历史依然会不断“书写”下去。
评分161125讀了幾章 看到對數學的描述才想起來/讀慣繁轉簡像"reading a letter from the future, or talking to someone who had turned their back on her/feared my childhood would pass before he finished his sentence/Stupid me, I thought the war ended in 1949/Could daylight be a form of blindness?"/大衛和MayForth的故事好想知道/龜孫子 嚇得魂都掉了之類的表達轉為英文和時不時的古詩感覺略刻意 Swirl和BigMotherKnife打包著突然就床前明月光這種
评分研究中国社会的英国朋友推荐的书,一遍读完觉得需要再读一遍,有些地方没有完全懂。但不完全懂可能也跟节奏有关,有些地方真有些莫名其妙。还是感谢朋友,感谢这本书,对于那段历史和那时人们的感受有了前所未有的了解,对于现在习以为常的生活和社会有了更多思考。
评分Madeleine Thien masterfully recounts key events in contemporary Chinese history through the eyes of two closely intertwined families. This i
评分Remember what I say: not everything will pass.
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