The Resource Little gods : a novel, Meng Jin
Little gods : a novel, Meng Jin
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The item Little gods : a novel, Meng Jin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boxford Town Library.
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- Summary
- On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother's ashes to China--to her, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, Liya's memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China, and Yongzong, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist, an ambivalent mother, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya's own sense of displacement. A story of migrations literal and emotional, spanning time, space and class, Little Gods is a sharp yet expansive exploration of the aftermath of unfulfilled dreams, an immigrant story in negative that grapples with our tenuous connections to memory, history, and self
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 279 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062935953
- Label
- Little gods : a novel
- Title
- Little gods
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Meng Jin
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother's ashes to China--to her, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, Liya's memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China, and Yongzong, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist, an ambivalent mother, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya's own sense of displacement. A story of migrations literal and emotional, spanning time, space and class, Little Gods is a sharp yet expansive exploration of the aftermath of unfulfilled dreams, an immigrant story in negative that grapples with our tenuous connections to memory, history, and self
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jin, Meng
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3610.I57
- LC item number
- L58 2020
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mothers and daughters
- Chinese American women
- Immigrants
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Little gods : a novel, Meng Jin
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1134612545
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 279 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062935953
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1134612545
- Label
- Little gods : a novel, Meng Jin
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1134612545
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 279 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062935953
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1134612545
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