7/6/2023 0 Comments Certainty by madeleine thien![]() ![]() But she dies suddenly and away from home, which makes it hard for those who love her: her parents and her long-time lover. There is nothing sinister in her death, however. It clearly dated from the wartime prison camps and if the code could be found, who knows what would be learned. Gail Lim was in the midst of bringing an unravelling of a mystery to life, when she died.Īs a producer of radio documentaries, she had been given a diary in which nothing was written but endless lists of numbers. Beautifully told, but structurally uncertain. It is a tale of love and loss and the search for a certainty about the past as well as hope for the future. ![]() Summary: In the aftermath of the sudden death of radio documentary producer her family and lover are provoked into an exploration of memory that takes us from the Second World War in British North Borneo to modern-day Vancouver, via Australia and the Antarctic and northern Europe. ![]()
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