My Old Home: A Novel of Exile

by Orville Schell

Book Overview

A uniquely experienced observer of China gives us a sweeping historical novel that takes us on a journey from the rise of Mao Zedong in 1949 to the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989, as a father and his son are swept away by a relentless series of devastating events.

It's 1950, and pianist Li Tongshu is one of the few Chinese to have graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Engaged to a Chinese-American violinist who...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593315812
• ISBN13: 9780593315811
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"