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Edition 23 (2016)

English-language works (including translations)Canadian literatureFiction (novels, short story collections)

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Madeleine Thien まどれーん・てぃえん Winner

Against the backdrop of twentieth-century China, the novel follows musicians and families through the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. Memory, inheritance, and loss are woven together in an ensemble story shaped by music.

An ensemble novel that tells modern Chinese history through music and family.

480 pages
modern Chinese historyCultural Revolutionfamily and generationsmemory and traumamusic and culture