Bibliograph

Little gods, a novel, Meng Jin

Type

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Little gods, a novel, Meng Jin

Language

eng

Form of composition

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Format of music

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Little gods

Music parts

not applicable

Oclc number

1135047104

Responsibility statement

Meng Jin

Sub title

a novel

Summary

On the night of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, Su Lan gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. When she dies seventeen years later, her daughter Liya, who has only known American life, takes her mother's ashes to China. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist, an ambivalent mother, and a woman whose past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya's own sense of displacement

Target audience

adult

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