![]() ![]() She weaves Mao Zedong’s reign, the Land reform campaign, the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square demonstrations into her narrative. First, the writer skillfully tracks back and forth across more than seven decades of history, assembling the story of the lives of both Marie’s and Ai-Ming’s families. Thien’s quest to unveil the interlocking fates of the novel's characters using historical events, themes, and literary devices impresses in many ways. Meanwhile, the story’s unique structure following the tale of Ai-ming’s fractured family earns the novel a certain universality. Her characters’ essence is skillfully captured and portrayed throughout the novel. Thien’s masterful writing, her weaving of history into fiction, her use of themes and literary devices truly stamp the mind with an after-image. ![]() Madeleine Thien’s novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing is a story crafted to be vivid and magisterial- intimate and grandly political. ![]()
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