Meng Jin - Little Gods A Novel - 2020 [EN]

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"Little Gods by Meng Jin" is a Non-Fiction > History title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (9.8 MB). Written by Meng Jin. The book spans approximately 280 pages with 89,730 words. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD"Compellingly complex...Expands the future of the immigrant novel even as it holds us in uneasy thrall to the past." – Gish Jen, New York Times Book Review Combining the emotional resonance of Home Fire with the ambition and innovation of Asymmetry, a lyrical and thought-provoking debut novel that explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics, history, and selfhood in the immigrant experience, and the complicated bond between daughters and mothers.On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the un...

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CategoryBooks

LanguageEnglish (EN)

GenreFiction, Literature

QualityEPUB

Size9.8 MB

Pages280

ArchivedAug 29, 2026

Synopsis

The nurse has never been so foolish as to have children of her own. She learned long ago that she does not like what children grow into. Looking back, it is clear that the opposite was true: her body had been more mature. This is what the nurse sees in the faces of the children around her. The nurse cares for infants in a way that she cannot their grown counterparts. She cares for them with the hope that they will grow not into humans but rather become something entirely new.