Green Island
Shawna Yang Ryan
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
"Shawna Yang Ryan's propulsive storytelling carries us through a bloody time in Taiwanese history, its implications still reverberating today. The story is haunted by questions about whether Taiwan is a part of China or its own country, what the costs are of standing up for one's beliefs and by the choices made by one father and his daughter. <i>Green Island</i> is a tough, unsentimental and moving novel that is a memorial not only to the heroes, but also to the survivors." &#8212;Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>The Sympathizer</i><b><i><br></i><br>A stunning story of love, betrayal, and family, set against the backdrop of a changing Taiwan over the course of the twentieth century.</b><br><b><br></b>February 28, 1947: Trapped inside the family home amid an uprising that has rocked Taipei, Dr. Tsai delivers his youngest daughter, the unnamed narrator of <i>Green Island, </i>just after midnight as the city is plunged into martial law. In the following weeks,...</br></br></br></br>