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Madeleine Thien. Certainty.

Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Madeleine Thien. Certainty. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2006. 320 pp. $32.99 hc. $21.00 sc.

In Canada, World War II is usually remembered as a European war. When Remembrance Day comes round, it is footage of Canadians fighting in Italy and Normandy that dominates the television specials. But for many Asian Canadians, what looms largest in memory is not the conflict in Europe but events in the Pacific theatre: the Japanese colonization of Korea and Manchuria, and the advance of the Japanese army through South East Asia. Three recent Canadian novels, Dennis Bock's The Ash Garden, Kerri Sakamoto's One Hundred Million Hearts, and Rui Umezawa's The Truth about Death and Dying, look at World War II from an Asian perspective. So too does Madeleine Thien's new novel Certainty. Although much...

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