ARGONAUT BOOKS

In Canada in 1990, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home. She is Ai-Ming, a young woman from China who has fled following the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square incident. As her relationship with Marie deepens she tells the story of her family in revolutionary China. Reviews A moving and extraordinary evocation of the 20th-century tragedy of China, and deserves to cement Thien's reputation as an important and compelling writerGuardian[This] will cement Thien as one of Canada's most talented novelists, at once a successor to Rohinton Mistry a...Read More