My Old Home: A Novel of Exile - Orville Schell

Written by Orville Schell
Read by James Lurie
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

General Information
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Title: My Old Home
Subtitle: A Novel of Exile
Author: Orville Schell
Narrator: James Lurie
Audiobook Copyright: 2021
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780593394625
Subjects: Fiction, Literature

File Information
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Media Format: MP3
Total Files: 25
Total Size: 676 MB
Bitrate: 64 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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A uniquely experienced observer of China gives us a novel that
recounts the familiar but still mesmerizing events from the rise of
Mao Zedong to the Tiananmen Square uprising, and the impact of that
history on one father and his son.
It is 1950, and Li Tongshu is one of the few Chinese citizens to have
graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Engaged to
Vivian Knight, a Chinese American violinist, Tongshu is drawn by Mao’s
promise “to build a new China” and by the enthusiasm so many other
Chinese artists and scientists living abroad have expressed at that
prospect. The odds of Tongshu ever having a successful career as a
performer in the United States are small, and so when the new
president of the recently established Central Conservatory of Music in
China offers him a teaching position, he leaves San Francisco and
returns home with his new wife.
But now Tongshu is forced to contend with the erratic and unexpected
shifts of a government determined to control the beliefs and
convictions of its citizens, with suspicion of the Western culture
that educated him, and with the ways in which his son, Little Li,
becomes caught up in the maelstrom of political and ideological
upheaval that not only threatens to destroy his family but will also
ultimately destroy the essential fabric of Chinese society.