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Ryan, Shawna Yang, 1976-
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Families -- Fiction.
Taiwan -- Fiction.
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Ryan, Shawna Yang, 1976-
Families -- Fiction.
Taiwan -- Fiction.
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Green
Island
/ Shawna Yang Ryan.
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Ryan, Shawna Yang, 1976-
Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Call #:
FICTION RYA
Subjects
Families -- Fiction.
Taiwan -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781101874257 (hc.)
1101874252 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
385 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"February 28, 1947: Trapped inside the family home amid an uprising that has rocked Taipei, Dr. Tsai delivers his youngest daughter, the unnamed narrator of
Green
Island
, just after midnight as the city is plunged into martial law. In the following weeks, as the Chinese Nationalists act to crush the opposition, Dr. Tsai becomes one of the many thousands of people dragged away from their families and thrown into prison. His return, after more than a decade, is marked by alienation from his loved ones and paranoia among his community--conflicts that loom over the growing bond he forms with his youngest daughter. Years later, this troubled past follows her to the United States, where, as a mother and a wife, she too is forced to decide between what is right and what might save her family--the same choice she witnessed her father make many years before. As the novel sweeps across six decades and two continents, the life of the narrator shadows the course of Taiwan's history from the end of Japanese colonial rule to the decades under martial law and, finally, to Taiwan's transformation into a democracy. But, above all,
Green
Island
is a lush and lyrical story of a family and a nation grappling with the nuances of complicity and survival, raising the question: how far would you be willing to go for the ones you love?"--From publisher.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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