by Madeleine Thien · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420471624
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«Certezas» is the historical novel by Madeleine Thien, published by Alfaguara in hardback (296 pages, in Spanish).
Ani and Matthew are two children marked by the Japanese occupation during the Second World War. Years later, Gail, Matthew's daughter and a radio producer, investigates the coded diaries of a soldier imprisoned in Hong Kong and discovers her father's past. The story addresses the legacy of loss and love as consolation and redemption.
It belongs to the Alfaguara Literaturas collection. Original title: Certainty. Translation by José Luis López Muñoz.
It will appeal to readers of historical and literary fiction, and to reading clubs looking for a story spanning multiple eras and settings.
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.
