![]() Do Not Say We Have Nothing is her fourth novel. Madeleine Thien was born in Vancouver and has been the recipient of numerous awards in her native Canada and further afield. ![]() Their fates reverberate through the years, with lasting consequences for Ai-Ming – and for Marie. It’s a history of revolutionary idealism, music and silence, in which three musicians struggle to remain loyal to one another and to the music they have devoted their lives to during China’s Cultural Revolution. She tells Marie 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. In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman, Ai-Ming, who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. ![]() In Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien brings to life one of the most significant political regimes of the 20th century and its traumatic legacy with intimacy, wit and moral complexity. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 | Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017 Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2016 ![]()
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