Little Gods by Meng Jin

Little Gods by Meng Jin

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. As Liya seeks to understand her family history, we travel through Shanghai and Beijing, and deep into the past, uncovering an unexpected love triangle whose repercussions reach up to the present moment. Ambitious, multifaceted yet intimate, Little Gods is a gripping story of migrations both literal and emotional and of the tragic impact of history on individual lives.

'This novel questions whether it's possible to ever know another person, particularly if that person is undergoing seismic shifts across generations and countriesThis is a quietly enthralling study of the brilliant physicist Su Lan, whose complex and often contradictory life is puzzled over by the people who knew her' - Guardian

Meng Jin's narrative prose has appeared in the Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, the Bare Life Review, Vogue, and is forthcoming in 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. Jin was born in Shanghai and has lived in the UK and the US.

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ISBN 13	9781911590439
ISBN 10	191159043X
Title	Little Gods
Author	Meng Jin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pushkin Press
Year published	2021-02-25
Number of pages	288
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