A meditation on the meaning of life in an increasingly global world, from acclaimed Chinese-Canadian author Xue Yiwei.\nSet in modern-day Montreal, Celia, Misoka, I is the story of a middle-aged Chinese man who has been living in the city for fifteen years. After the death of his wife, he begins to reflect on his past and how he has ended up alone in Canada, a solitary member of the Chinese diaspora. It is in this period of angst and uncertainty, during the most unusual of winters, that he meets two women by Beaver Lake, on Montreal’s Mount Royal. They, too, have their own stories: stories of their own personal plights, which connect present to past, and West to East.\nThe distinct paths taken by these three characters ― Celia, Misoka, and “I” ― span continents and decades, but, whether by chance or design, converge in Montreal, like mysterious figures in an ancient Chinese Zen painting. After coming together, the three begin to examine who they are, where they might belong, and how to navigate otherness and identity in a globalized world.\nA RARE MACHINES BOOK

Celia, Misoka, I

Literature & Fiction

Yiwei, Xue

United States

Rare Machines

Fiction. Asian &amp; Asian American Studies. Xue Yiwei's life has been marked by that of the legendary Montréal surgeon Norman Bethune, who died in China in the cause of Communism. Like other Chinese of his generation — the generation that has turned China into the world power it is today — Xue Yiwei was inspired by Dr. Bethune's example during the Cultural Revolution. But unlike his peers, he went to the lengths of moving to Montréal, where he has lived for sixteen years as a writer acclaimed in China and—until now— unknown in Canada. This subversive novel is the story that only he could write. DR. BETHUNE'S CHILDREN, which is banned in China (it is available only in a Chinese language version published in Taiwan), focuses on individual lives marked by some of the traumatic events of recent decades that have been veiled by official secrecy. In showing us the effects of the distress and repression that have marked his whole generation, Xue Yiwei unveils the human heart. "Xue Yiwei is a maverick. As an admirer of his, I salute his courage, his stamina, and his love of solitude."—Ha Jin

Dr. Bethune's Children

Linda Leith Publishing

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Celia, Misoka, I

Dr. Bethune's Children