Little Gods

Meng Jin, Mumtaz Mustafa

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Faber & Faber
04 May 2021

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. Years later, her daughter Liya travels from America to China with her mother's ashes, hoping to unravel the legacy of silences and contradictions that she inherited from that night onwards.

As Liya seeks to untangle her family history, we travel through Shanghai and Beijing, and deep into the past, uncovering an unexpected love triangle whose repercussions reach up to the present moment.

Ambitious, multifaceted yet intimate, Little Gods is a gripping story of migrations both literal and emotional and of the tragic impact of history on individual lives.

By: Meng Jin
Designed by: Mumtaz Mustafa
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9781911590439
ISBN 10: 191159043X
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 04 May 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Meng Jin's narrative prose has appeared in the Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, the Bare Life Review, Vogue, and is forthcoming in Best American Short Stories 2020. A Kundiman Fellow, she has an MFA from Hunter College, and received the David TK Wong Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. Jin was born in Shanghai and has lived in the UK and the US.

Reviews for Little Gods

'This novel questions whether it's possible to ever know another person, particularly if that person is undergoing seismic shifts across generations and countries. This is a quietly enthralling study of the brilliant physicist Su Lan, whose complex and often contradictory life is puzzled over by the people who knew her' - Guardian