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A song everlasting [large type] / Ha Jin.

by Jin, Ha, 1956- author.

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Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2021.

Singers -- Fiction.

Chinese -- United States -- Fiction.

Exiles -- Fiction.

9781638081012 (large print) (hardback ; alk. paper) :

1638081018 (large print) (hardback ; alk. paper) :

519 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

Center Point Large Print edition.

"At the end of a U.S. tour with his state-supported choir, popular singer Yao Tian takes a private gig in New York to pick up some extra cash for his daughter's tuition fund, but the consequences of his choice spiral out of control. On his return to China, Tian is informed that the sponsors of the event were supporters of Taiwan's secession, and that he must deliver a formal self-criticism. When he is asked to forfeit his passport to his employer, Tian impulsively decides instead to return to New York to protest the government's threat to his artistic integrity. With the help of his old friend Yabin, Tian's career begins to flourish in the United States. But he is soon placed on a Chinese government blacklist and thwarted by the state at every turn, and it becomes increasingly clear that he may never return to China unless he denounces the freedoms that have made his new life possible. Tian nevertheless insists on his identity as a performer, refusing to give up his art. Moving, important, and strikingly relevant to our times, A Song Everlasting is a story of hope in the face of hardship from one of our most celebrated authors"--

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