If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Revolving around two families of musicians living through the often horrifying ructions of 20th-century China, from the Cultural Revolution to the iconic events of 1989 in Tiananmen Square, the book is both a salutary reminder of Thien’s many strengths and a stunning next-level statement.Ī welcome email is on its way. It’s hard to imagine that situation not changing decisively with Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Knopf, 473 pp, $35). Oddly, though, notwithstanding her Amazon First Novel nod for 2006’s Certainties, she has been under-appreciated at national awards time most of her recognition has come from abroad. Writing about history in dazzlingly original and lyrical fictional form has been the stock-in-trade of the 41-year-old Vancouver-born Thien, and has made her one of Canada’s most critically acclaimed writers. “Life is so much about missed opportunities.”
“As a novelist writing about history, you become very conscious of moments at which things could have turned another way and didn’t,” said Madeleine Thien.
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