Madeleine Thien

Certainty (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Madeleine Thien's stunning debut novel fulfills all her early promise and introduces a young novelist of vision, maturity, and style. Gail Lim, a producer of radio documentaries in present-day Vancouver, finds herself haunted by events in her parents' past in wartorn Asia, a past which remains a mystery that fiercely grips her imagination. As a child, Gail's father, Matthew Lim, wandered the Leila Road and the jungle fringe with his lovely Ani, a girl whose early bond with Matthew will affect his life always. As children, they found themselves together under the terrifying shadow of war in Japanese-occupied Sandakan, Malaysia. The war shatters their families and splits the two apart until years later, when they remeet only to be separated again. The legacy of their connection is later inherited by Matthew's wife, Clara, in unexpected ways. Gail's journey to unravel the mystery of her parents' lives takes her to Amsterdam, where she meets the war photographer Sipke, who tells his story of Ani and their relationship, which began in Jakarta, a story that will bring Gail face to face with the complications in her own life and lead her closer to the truth. Vivid, poignant, wise, at once sweeping and intimate, Certainty is a novel about the legacies of loss, about the dislocations of war and the redemptive qualities of love. Thien reveals herself as a novelist of rare and potent talent.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McClelland & Stewart
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781551991610
• Artikelnr.: 46591230

Autorenporträt

MADELEINE THIEN's first fiction, Simple Recipes, won four awards in Canada and was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Her novel Certainty was a national bestseller, won the Amazon First Novel Award, and was a Globe and Mail Best Book. Her second novel, Dogs at the Perimeter, was also a Globe and Mail Best Book. Her third novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, was a #1 national bestseller, won the Governor General's Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It sold in many territories around the world. Originally from Vancouver, Thien currently divides her time between New York City and her home in Montreal.