![]() ![]() Despite being marketed asĪ lyrical and thought-provoking 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… Meng Jin’s debut novel Little Gods is a haunting story told from the perspectives of the neighbor Zhu Wen, Liya, and Yongzong as a reinvented man in Beijing two decades after Tiananmen. Little Gods: A Novel, Meng Jin (Custom House, January 2020) Only it isn’t Su Lan that Zhu Wen sees, but seventeen year-old Liya, visiting China for the first time since she left as a toddler. ![]() But the images of Su Lan and Li Yongzong are actually real. Her husband had died years ago and she often feels his presence in their small longtang apartment. Still, when Su Lan leaves Shanghai in the early 1990s with Liya, she believes Yongzong is still alive and may someday return to their Shanghai apartment.Īs it turns out, Zhu Wen is not seeing ghosts. There is also Su Lan’s physician husband, Li Yongzong, who disappeared after Liya was born in Beijing on June 4, 1989. The neighbors include Su Lan, a young physicist, and her toddler daughter, Liya. It’s been over fifteen years since her next door neighbors left their traditional Shanghai longtang apartment and asked Zhu Wen to watch over their unit. But, you don't need a user account to read these titles online, and they're all formatted nicely.Elderly Shanghai neighbor Zhu Wen thinks she’s seeing ghosts. The search box is basic and the only other way to find books is by scrolling through the author list. The website is really simple to use, but maybe too simple. ![]() In other words, you don't need to worry if you're looking at something illegal. These are books in the public domain, which means they're freely accessible and allowed to be distributed. This site offers up a good selection of high-quality, free books you can read right in your browser. Most books here are featured in English, but there are quite a few German language texts as well. They're organized alphabetically by the author’s last name and are written in HTML and XHTML, which means they're in an easily readable format. Lacks books in foreign languages (except some German).Īuthorama offers a good selection of free books from a variety of authors, both current and classic. ![]()
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