Monday, November 14 07pm to 09pm
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St, New York, New York 10001
You can’t miss this rare New York appearance by novelist Madeleine Thien, whose ambitious novel of contemporary Chinese history–Do Not Say We Have Nothing (W.W. Norton 2016)–is a finalist for this year’s Man Booker Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award, Canada’s Highest Literary Prize. An epic, magisterial story, the ambitious, sweeping novel engages with two of the most violent moments in recent Chinese history: the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square protests. She’ll discuss the book with New Yorker staff writer Jiayang Fan, who complimented Thien’s “mastery” in writing a “powerfully expansive” novel spanning “seven decades and three generations” of Chinese history in a rave review in the…
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