Madeleine Thien

Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations - those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution in the mid-20th century....

A Literary Hub, Esquire, and Washington Post Most Anticipated Book of 2025 A novel that leaps across centuries past and future, as if different eras were separated by only a door. Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few...

One starless night, Janie's childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge....