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Summary:

"An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post-Cultural Revolution China that reckons with the costs of pursuing one's dreams and the lives we leave behind"-- [Provided by publisher]
Tang Yitian has been living in America for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: his father has disappeared from the family's rural village in China. Though they have been estranged for years, Yitian promises to come home. When Yitian attempts to piece together what may have happened, he struggles to navigate China's impenetrable bureaucracy as an outsider, and his mother's evasiveness only deepens the mystery. So he seeks out a childhood friend who may be in a position to help: Tian Hanwen, the only other person who shared Yitian's desire to pursue a life of knowledge. As a teenager, Hanwen was "sent down" from Shanghai to Yitian's village as part of the country's rustication campaign. Young and in love, they dreamed of attending university in the city together. But when their plans resulted in a terrible tragedy, their paths diverged, and while Yitian ended up a professor in America, Hanwen was left behind, resigned to life as a midlevel bureaucrat's wealthy housewife. Reuniting for the first time as adults, Yitian and Hanwen embark on the search for Yitian's father, all the while grappling with the past--who Yitian's father really was, and what might have been. Spanning the late 1970s to 1990s and moving effortlessly between rural provinces and big cities, A Map for the Missing is a deeply felt examination of family and forgiveness, and the meaning of home.

Author/Creator:

Tang, Belinda Huijuan , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

A map for the missing [by Tang, B.H.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Map for the missing [by Tang, B.H.] (New York : Penguin Press, 2022 — ISBN 9780593300671; LCCN 2021041972)

Subjects:

Chinese — United States — Fiction

Homecoming — Fiction

Estranged families — Fiction

Fathers and sons — Fiction

Families — Fiction

Missing persons — Fiction

China — History — 1976-2002 — Fiction

General Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PS3620.A6844 M37 2022eb

ISBNs:

9780593300671 (electronic bk.)
059330067X (electronic bk.)
9780593300664 [Invalid]
0593300661 [Invalid]
9780593492963 [Invalid]
059349296X [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1288422733

Other Control Numbers:

3094032 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp303036458