Little Gods

Little Gods
Meng Jin
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 288pg
7 Oct 2021 UK
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9781911590453
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Named a Best Book of Winter by Vogue - USA Today - TIME - Electric Literature - PopSugar - Alma - Bustle - PureWow - The Millions"Meng Jin is a writer whose sweep is as intimate as it is global. Little Gods is a novel about the heart-wracking ways in which we move through history and time. A fierce and intelligent debut from a writer with longitude and latitude embedded in her vision. " --Colum McCann, New York Times bestselling author of Let the Great World SpinCombining the emotional resonance of Home Fire with the ambition and innovation of Asymmetry, a lyrical and thought-provoking debut novel that explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics, history, and selfhood in the immigrant experience, and the complicated bond between daughters and mothers. 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.
"Though it initially sounds like a quest narrative, Little Gods proves to be much more as it wrestles with grief, immigration and the durability of memory. "--Time. com "Spectacular and emotionally polyphonic. . . That Jin has managed to craft such an intimate, emotionally complex story is an awesome achievement. That she managed to do it in her debut novel, doubly so. " --Omar El Akkad, BookPage (starred review) "Skillfully revealed, exquisitely rendered. "--Booklist (starred review) "Artfully composed and emotionally searing, Jin' s debut about lost girls, bottomless ambition, and the myriad ways family members can hurt and betray one another is gripping from beginning to end. This is a beautiful, intensely moving debut. "--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A brilliant debut--intellectually bold but with a startling emotional core, Meng Jin' s Little Gods is a huge pleasure. Watch out: this writer' s career has just begun. What delights above all is literary ambition: Meng Jin' s gift merges science, politics and art: the kind of audacity our world needs now. "--Gina Apostol "A powerful story about family, immigration and the things we inherit along the way. Meng Jin writes beautifully on the mysteries of the past, both politically and personally, both as a universal burden to be carried collectively and as a conveyance for our individual liberation. . . Stunning. "--Said Sayrafiezadeh, author of Brief Encounters with the Enemy "Meng Jin' s beautiful debut novel is ambitious in the best ways: meticulously observed, daringly imagined, rich in character and history. Ranging across continents, cultures and generations, Jin poses profound questions: how might we know ourselves, or the people we love? And what truths, if any, travel with us? " --Claire Messud "Meng Jin is a writer whose sweep is as intimate as it is global. Little Gods is a novel about the heart-wracking ways in which we move through history and time. A fierce and intelligent debut from a writer with longitude and latitude embedded in her vision. "--Colum McCann
Meng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. A Kundiman Fellow, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781911590453
Published: 7 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: ONE
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 288

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