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On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth
alone in a Beijing hospital. So begins the slow unravelling of Su
Lan: a woman determined to remake herself, an ambitious physicist
and ambivalent mother who becomes consumed by her research into
disproving the irreversibility of time. Following Su Lan's sudden
death, her daughter Liya travels from the US to China to try to
understand the silences and ghosts her mother left behind. Adrift
in a country she doesn't know, Liya begins to piece together how
her mother's obsessive desire to erase her own past has marked the
lives of those around her, and Liya's own.
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 understand 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.
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