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Certainty by Madeleine Thien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In present-day Vancouver, Gail Lim, a producer of radio documentaries, is haunted by the mysterious events in her father's childhood in war-torn Asia, and using her skills as a journalist is driven to unravel the mystery of his past. As a boy, Matthew Lim hid in the jungle fringe near Leila Road in Japa ...Show more
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award // Finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction "A powerfully expansive novel...Thien writes with the mastery of a conductor." --New York Times Book Review "In a single year, my father left us ...Show more
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming. As her relationship with Marie deepens, Ai-Ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China, from the cro ...Show more
Dogs at the Perimeter by Thien Madeleine
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
2005: In the midst of a cold Montreal winter, a Cambodian woman, known only to us as 'Jani', separates from her husband and son. She takes refuge in the apartment of her friend, the neurologist Hiroji Matsui, but one day he leaves the Brain Research Centre where they are both employed and disappears int ...Show more
Dogs at the Perimeter by Madeleine Thien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
One starless night Janie's childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge. Exiled from Phnom Penh, Janie and her family were forced to live out in the open: cold, hungry and under constant surveillance. Caught up in a political storm which brought starvation to millions, tore families apart ...Show more
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