My Old Home

Released on by Orville Schell
preview-18

  • My Old Home Book Detail

  • Author : Orville Schell
  • Release Date : 2021-03-09
  • Publisher : Pantheon
  • Genre : Fiction
  • Pages : 625
  • ISBN 13 : 0593315820
  • File Size : 90,90 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

My Old Home by Orville Schell PDF Summary

Book Description: A uniquely experienced observer of China gives us a sweeping historical novel that takes us on a journey from the rise of Mao Zedong in 1949 to the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989, as a father and his son are swept away by a relentless series of devastating events. It’s 1950, and pianist Li Tongshu is one of the few Chinese to have graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Engaged to a Chinese-American violinist who is the daughter of a missionary father and a Shanghai-born mother, Li Tongshu is drawn not just by Mao’s grand promise to “build a new China” but also by the enthusiasm of many other Chinese artists and scientists living abroad, who take hope in Mao’s promise of a rejuvenated China. And so when the recently established Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing offers Li Tongshu a teaching position, he leaves San Francisco and returns home with his new wife. But instead of being allowed to teach, Li Tongshu is plunged into Mao’s manic revolution, which becomes deeply distrustful of his Western education and his American wife. It’s not long before his son, Little Li, also gets caught up in the maelstrom of political and ideological upheaval that ends up not only savaging the Li family but, ultimately, destroying the essential fabric of Chinese society.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own My Old Home books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

My Old Home

My Old Home

File Size : 81,81 MB
Total View : 5076 Views
DOWNLOAD

A uniquely experienced observer of China gives us a sweeping historical novel that takes us on a journey from the rise of Mao Zedong in 1949 to the Tiananmen Sq

My Old Kentucky Home

My Old Kentucky Home

File Size : 65,65 MB
Total View : 3411 Views
DOWNLOAD

"The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home." So begins an American standard, first published as a minstrel song, that became dear to the hearts of millions

My Old Man

My Old Man

File Size : 4,4 MB
Total View : 2726 Views
DOWNLOAD

In a series of essays, Runyon, reflects on the frank, often outrageous opinions of his “old man,” who knows a thing or two about just about everything—and