Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award
Finalist for the Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
"A powerfully expansive novel...Thien writes with the mastery of a conductor." --New York Times Book Review
Winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize
"A vivid, magisterial novel that reaches back to China's civil war and up to the present day" --The Guardian
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...