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		Thien, Madeleine, 1974-

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		Vancouver (B.C.) -- Fiction.

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Certainty (book club kit - fiction) / Madeleine Thien.

by Thien, Madeleine, 1974-

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Little, Brown, and Co., 2006.

BOOK CLUB KIT THI

Asian Canadians -- Fiction.

Radio producers and directors -- Fiction.

War -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.

Amazon.ca First Novel Award.

Malaya -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.

Vancouver (B.C.) -- Fiction.

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Bookclub kit : Certainty

10 books, 311 p. ; 23 cm.

Holds can be placed via the Contact Us page on our website. Please include your library card number, the date you would like to pick up the kit, the branch location, and list several titles for each date, in case your first pick is not available.

Ideal for your Book Club or Reading Group. This kit includes a nylon Halifax Public Libraries bag with 10 copies of Madeleine Thien's "Certainty", along with author and title information, and a list of discussion questions. The kit is available to borrow for 6 week loans.

"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."--McClelland & Stewart.

Winner of the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award, 2006.

Canadian fiction.

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