Little Gods

An ambitious, multifaceted yet intimate story of migration. On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. Years later, her daughter Liya travels from America to China with her mother's ashes, hoping to unravel the legacy of silences and contradictions that she inherited from that night onwards.

Informationen zum Autor Meng Jin's writing has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology , T hreepenny Review , Ploughshares , the Bare Life Review , Vogue , and Best American Short Stories 2020 . A Kundiman Fellow, she has an MFA from Hunter College, and received the David TK Wong Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. Little Gods has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Prize, the Balcones Fiction Prize and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Jin was born in Shanghai and has lived in the UK and the US. Klappentext An epic, heart-breaking novel opening on the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, about the legacy of migration, with a tangled family mystery at its heart. Zusammenfassung An epic, heart-breaking novel opening on the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, about the legacy of migration, with a tangled family mystery at its heart.

Autorentext
Meng Jin's writing has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, T*hreepenny Review, Ploughshares, the Bare Life Review, Vogue, and BestAmerican Short Stories 2020. A Kundiman Fellow, she has an MFA from Hunter College, and received the David TK Wong Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. Little Gods* has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Prize, the Balcones Fiction Prize and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Jin was born in Shanghai and has lived in the UK and the US.

Klappentext

An epic, heart-breaking novel opening on the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, about the legacy of migration, with a tangled family mystery at its heart.