![]() Ryan skips over great chunks of time to keep the focus on Tsai’s family, as the narrator lives her life within the context of political dissidence and the possible effects her father’s incarceration might have on the family. When he’s finally released, he’s scarcely recognizable and is unable to work as a physician, instead taking on a few menial jobs, overseeing the narrator’s education, and spending a lot of time in his room. ![]() He’s gone for a decade-imprisoned, interrogated, and broken. Tsai, the narrator's mild-mannered father, who makes a brief speech in favor of democracy at a community meeting…and disappears. Two weeks after her birth, Chinese nationalists under the helm of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek respond brutally to an uprising. ![]() The narrator, never named, is born in February 1947, at a time of political upheaval in Taiwan. An epic political novel focusing on post–World War II dissidents in Taiwan and especially on its repressive government. ![]()
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