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(Thien, born in Vancouver and now living in Montreal, is also acclaimed for short stories. And I started to think about those parents and what gave them the courage to come into the streets that night and in the weeks preceding.”ĭo Not Say We Have Nothing, Thien’s newly released third novel, furthers the ambition of previous works including the 2006 book Certainty, which won the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Researching the 1989 democracy movement that culminated in massacre on June 3 and 4 in Beijing, she “started to think about those people-the parents, the workers, the high-school students-that weren’t the university students that we’d all been so focused on. But it’s only in the last five or six years that I thought I was ready to write about it.” “I think in all these years since, 27 years now, it’s been a topic that I’ve returned again and again to in my interests. “It’s something that’s always stayed with me from that time I was 14 turning 15,” she says.

The 1989 uprising in Tiananmen Square has long gripped Madeleine Thien.