by Madeleine Thien · McClelland & Stewart · tapa dura · ISBN 9780771085130
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«Certainty» is the novel by Madeleine Thien, published by McClelland & Stewart in hardback (320 pages, in English).
The novel follows Gail Lim, a radio documentary producer in Vancouver who tries to unravel the mystery of her parents' past in war-torn Asia. The story travels from Japanese-occupied Malaya to Amsterdam, where a war photographer holds keys to that history, and weaves together memory, loss and love.
Certainty was Madeleine Thien's first novel, winner of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award (2006) and shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize (2007).
Recommended for readers of literary and historical fiction and for book clubs interested in contemporary Canadian narrative with an Asian background.
Madeleine Thien is a Canadian short story writer and novelist. The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature has considered her work as reflecting the increasingly trans-cultural nature of Canadian literature, exploring art, expression and politics inside Cambodia and China, as well as within diasporic East Asian communities. Thien's critically acclaimed novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, won the 2016 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards for Fiction. It was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and the 2017 Rathbones Folio Prize. Her books have been translated into more than 25 languages.
