A Map for the Missing (ePub)
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post-Cultural Revolution China, A Map for the Missing reckons with the costs of pursuing one's dreams and the lives we leave behind
Tang Yitian has been living in America for almost a...
Tang Yitian has been living in America for almost a...
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An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post-Cultural Revolution China, A Map for the Missing reckons with the costs of pursuing one's dreams and the lives we leave behind
Tang Yitian has been living in America for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: Yitian's father has disappeared from the family's rural village in China. He walked out of their courtyard two mornings ago, with only a plastic bag tied around his wrist, and no one has seen him since.
When Yitian returns to the village and attempts to piece together what may have happened, he struggles to navigate the country's impenetrable bureaucracy as an outsider, and his mother's evasiveness only deepens the mystery. So he seeks out a childhood friend who may be in a position to help: Tian Hanwen, the only other person who shared Yitian's desire to pursue a life of knowledge. As a teenager, Hanwen was "sent down" from Shanghai to Yitian's village as part of China's rustication campaign. Young and in love, they dreamed of attending university in the city together and poured everything into studying for the newly-reinstated college entrance exam. But when events spiraled into tragedy, their paths diverged, and while Yitian made it to Beijing then to America, Hanwen was left behind, resigned to life as a mid-level bureaucrat's wealthy housewife.
Reuniting for the first time as adults, Yitian and Hanwen embark on the search for Yitian's father, all the while reckoning with the past and what might have been. Spanning the late 1970s to 1990s and moving effortlessly between rural provinces and grand cities, A Map for the Missing is an epic, deeply felt examination of family and forgiveness, the cost of pursuing one's dreams, and the meaning of home.
Tang Yitian has been living in America for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: Yitian's father has disappeared from the family's rural village in China. He walked out of their courtyard two mornings ago, with only a plastic bag tied around his wrist, and no one has seen him since.
When Yitian returns to the village and attempts to piece together what may have happened, he struggles to navigate the country's impenetrable bureaucracy as an outsider, and his mother's evasiveness only deepens the mystery. So he seeks out a childhood friend who may be in a position to help: Tian Hanwen, the only other person who shared Yitian's desire to pursue a life of knowledge. As a teenager, Hanwen was "sent down" from Shanghai to Yitian's village as part of China's rustication campaign. Young and in love, they dreamed of attending university in the city together and poured everything into studying for the newly-reinstated college entrance exam. But when events spiraled into tragedy, their paths diverged, and while Yitian made it to Beijing then to America, Hanwen was left behind, resigned to life as a mid-level bureaucrat's wealthy housewife.
Reuniting for the first time as adults, Yitian and Hanwen embark on the search for Yitian's father, all the while reckoning with the past and what might have been. Spanning the late 1970s to 1990s and moving effortlessly between rural provinces and grand cities, A Map for the Missing is an epic, deeply felt examination of family and forgiveness, the cost of pursuing one's dreams, and the meaning of home.
Autoren-Porträt von Belinda Huijuan Tang
Belinda Huijuan Tang is a 2021 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. She holds a BA from Stanford University and was a 2019 work-study fellow at the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She lived in China from 2016 to 2018 and, while there, received an MA from Peking University in Beijing. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Belinda Huijuan Tang
- 2022, 400 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- ISBN-10: 059330067X
- ISBN-13: 9780593300671
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.08.2022
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