Lost Careers: The Mother
In another possible life, the life of my mother, I travel from country to country. When I finally settle down, buy a home, it is in Vancouver at the foot of a mountain. At night, I can get in my . . .
Author Archives: Madeleine Thien
Dream of the Red Chamber
My mother’s favourite book was the Chinese classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber, also known as The Story of the Stone, also known as A Dream of Red Mansions. This was the only work of fiction . . .
Okigbo’s Generation: A Conversation with Obi Nwakanma
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An Interview with Tsitsi Dangarembga
*Note: In this 2013 interview, Tsitsi Dangarembga discusses a book called Chronicle of an Indomitable Daughter which was later published as This Mournable Body, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.
In 1988, at the age of twenty-eight, Tsitsi Dangarembga published . . .