Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel [Paperback]

This is a moving and extraordinary evocation of the 20th-century tragedy of China, and deserves to cement Thiens reputation as an important and compelling writer.Extraordinary&It recalls the panoramic scale and domestic minutiae of the great 19th-century Russian writers&[A] highly suspenseful drama&as courageous and principled as resistance itself.[A]?graceful, intricate novel whose humanity threads through it like a stirring melodic line.A magnificent epic of Chinese history, richly detailed and beautifully written.Powerful.A deeply profound and moving tale where music, mathematics and family history are beautifully woven together in a poetic story&Full of wisdom and complexity, comedy and beauty, Thien has delivered a novel that is both hugely political and severe, but at the same time delicate and intimate, rooted in the tumultuous history of China.Music is at the center of this ambitious saga of totalitarian China, where classical musicians were persecuted during the Maoist Cultural Revolution&Thiens intricate narrative slowly lays bare the lives of three musical friends living through a totalitarian era when serious music had to survive driven underground, like forbidden love.A splendid writer.Imagination, Nabokov says, is a form of memory.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