Shawna Yang Ryan (Livres)

Shawna Yang Ryan Livres

Shawna Yang Ryan tisse des récits qui plongent dans les profondeurs complexes de l'expérience humaine, en employant un style à la fois incisif et lyrique. Sa prose explore souvent les paysages complexes de l'identité et des liens familiaux, présentant des personnages qui résonnent par leur vulnérabilité et leur résilience. Ryan tisse magistralement des histoires qui semblent à la fois intimes et universelles, invitant les lecteurs à contempler la nature de la mémoire et de l'héritage. Son langage est précis et évocateur, ce qui en fait une voix distinctive de la littérature contemporaine.

Green Island

400pages
14 heures de lecture

4,3(42)Évaluer

BEST BOOK AWARD IN FICTION BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES • A stunning, lyrical novel that tells "the story of how the Tsais, a Taiwanese family, survive the 'February 28 Incident' of 1947 and precariously navigate the decades that follow" (The New York Times). As an uprising rocks Taiwan, a young doctor in Taipei is taken from his newborn daughter by Chinese Nationalists, on charges of speaking out against the government. Although the doctor eventually returns to his family, his arrival is marked by alienation from his loved ones and paranoia among his community. Years later, this troubled past follows his youngest daughter to America, where, as a mother and a wife, she too is forced to decide between what is right and what might save her family—the same choice she witnessed her father make many years before. The story of a family and a nation grappling with the nuances of complicity and survival, Green Island raises the question: how far would you go for the ones you love?

Green Island

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