Green Island [electronic resource] : A Novel
Shawna Yang Ryan2024
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“Shawna Yang Ryan’s propulsive storytelling carries us through a bloody time
in Taiwanese history, its implications still reverberating today. The story is
haunted by questions about whether Taiwan is a part of China or its own country,
what the costs are of standing up for one’s beliefs and by the choices made by
one father and his daughter. Green Island is a tough, unsentimental and moving
novel that is a memorial not only to the heroes, but also to the survivors.”
—Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer
A stunning story of love, betrayal, and family, set against the backdrop of a
changing Taiwan over the course of the twentieth century.
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 opposit...
Main title:
Green Island [electronic resource] : A Novel / Shawna Yang Ryan
Author:
Shawna Yang Ryan, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Random House, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (449 MB, 16:22:19 H)
Performers:
Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller
Audience:
Adult
System details:
Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9798217079995
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
533374
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eAudiobook |