Do Not Say We Have Nothing with Madeleine Thien
Hosted by the CBC’s Lucy van Oldenbarneveld
In Person Fiction
Admission
Free
Sunday
Oct , 2016
30
7:00pm
Eastern
Centretown United Church
507 Bank St. • Ottawa
With unflinching clarity, Thien examines the strange, frightening psychology of mass violence in this period and how countless lives were lost as a result. It falls to music, art and literature to salvage fleeting moments of beauty from the ruins of history, the lives of the dead.
Join us for an evening with Madeleine Thien, celebrating her remarkable new novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing–nominated for both the Man Booker Prize and the Giller Prize.
Set in China before, during and after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations–those who lived through Mao’s Cultural Revolution in the mid-twentieth century; and the children of the survivors, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square in 1989, in one of the most important political moments of the past century.
Books available for purchase at every event: Proceeds support our free children’s literacy programs.
Set in China before, during and after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations–those who lived through Mao’s Cultural Revolution in the mid-twentieth century; and the children of the survivors, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square in 1989, in one of the most important political moments of the past century.
Books available for purchase at every event: Proceeds support our free children’s literacy programs.
