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Madeleine Thien, 2016 Giller Prize winning author reading from her award winning novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing

When:
Monday, March 27, 2017
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Where:
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Room: Atrium
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The Department of English at Queen’s University is honoured to present a Public Reading and Book Signing with Madeleine Thien, 2016 winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for Do Not Say We Have Nothing on Monday March 27th, at 4:00 pm in the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

Thien’s masterpiece is “breathtaking in scope and ambition even as it is hauntingly intimate” (Penguin). It tells the story of three musicians in China before, during and after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. On top of the Giller Prize, this extraordinary novel won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. 

This event is free and open to the public.

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