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ID: 783133


Title: Empire of Glass


Author: Kaitlin Solimine


Narrator: Joshua Fu, Si Chen


Format: Unabridged


Length: 9:50:50


Language: English


Release date: 05-14-24


Publisher: Findaway Voices


Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction



Summary:


In the mid-1990s, an American teenager, named Lao K in Chinese, stands on Coal Hill, a park in Beijing, a loop of rope in her hand. Will she assist her Chinese homestay mother, Li-Ming, who is dying of cancer, in ending her life, or will she choose another path? Twenty years later, Lao K receives a book written by Li-Ming called Empire of Glass, a narrative that chronicles the lives of Li-Ming and her husband, Wang, in pre and post-revolutionary China over the last half of the twentieth century. Lao K begins translating the story, which becomes the novel we are reading. But, as translator, how can Lao K separate fact from fiction, and what will her role be in the books final chapter?


A grand, experimental epicLao Ks story is told in footnotes that run throughout the bookthat chronicles the seismic changes in China over the last half century through the lens of one familys experiences, Empire of Glass is an investigation into the workings of human memory and the veracity of oral history that pushes the boundaries of language and form in stunning and unforgettable ways.



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