by Madeleine Thien · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571234189
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«Certainty» is the contemporary novel by Madeleine Thien, published by Faber & Faber in paperback, with 352 pages and text in English.
Gail Lim, a radio documentary producer in Vancouver, tries to unravel her parents' past in Japanese-occupied Malaysia. As children, Ani and Matthew shared a friendship marked by war, which separated them and left a lasting imprint on their family. A trip to Amsterdam brings Gail closer to the truth about Ani and about her own life.
Certainty was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize in 2007 and won the Amazon Canada First Novel Award in 2006.
For readers of literary and historical fiction, interested in memory and the aftermath of war.
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.
