![]() ![]() ![]() Nineteen-year-old, Ai-ming has left Beijing after being part of the events in Tiananmen Square. They only have book 17 of numerous volumes and Marie’s mother tells her it’s a story copied out by a ‘refined calligrapher’.Īt the end of the same year, Marie’s mother takes a young woman into their home. Passed down through their family, it tells the story of Da-Wei and May Fourth. She lives in Vancouver, working as a university professor in mathematics, but the story that concerns her now is that of her father and, in particular, events during the creation of The People’s Republic of China and the uprising in Tiananmen Square in 1989.Īfter Marie’s father dies, her mother introduces her to the Book of Records. ![]() The narrator who speaks these words has several names – her Chinese name, Jiang Li-ling her English name, Marie Jiang, and Girl, her father’s nickname for her because the Chinese word for daughter and girl is the same. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life.ĭo Not Say We Have Nothing has one of the most arresting openings I’ve read in a while. In a single year, my father left us twice. ![]()
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