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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A book of records.Remember what I say:Not everything will pass...
评分温哥华的中国女孩
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
评分海外华裔的伤痕文学。能感受到作者对于大时代下个体命运动荡的叩问,但可能过于凝重导致前半部分有点拖沓,到七·五事件那里本应是全书高潮,因为前面没有抑而扬不起来。是本好书,但作为布克短名单,还是差点意思。书里的路人角色有点别扭,比如面摊大妈端面时候说“这是好面条,但是没法拯救世界。”浓重的说教腔一下子就出戏了。
评分第一次有这样的感觉:恰恰是两个男人,让情感更纯粹了。 命运书写的故事到底会有几个开始,几个结尾?
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