Little gods / Meng Jin.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: London : ONE, 2021Copyright date: ©2020Whakaahuatanga: 279 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781911590439
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Fiction | Hāwera LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | JIN (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2211654 |
On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother's ashes to China -- to her, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, Liya's memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China, and Yongzong, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist, an ambivalent mother, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya's own sense of displacement.
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