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A stunning story of love, betrayal, and family set against the setting of the changing Taiwan over the course of the 20th hundred years. Feb 28, 1947: Trapped inside the house amid an uprising that has rocked Taipei, Dr. Tsai delivers his youngest girl, the unnamed narrator of Green Island, just after midnight as the location is plunged into martial laws. In the next weeks, as the Chinese Nationalists react to crush the opposition, Dr. Tsai becomes one of the many thousands of men and women dragged from their own families and tossed into prison. His return, after greater than a decade, is designated by alienation from his family members and paranoia among his community - conflicts that loom within the growing relationship he forms along with his youngest girl. Years later, this stressed past comes after her to the United States, where, as a mother and a better half, she too is forced to choose between what's right and what might save her family - the same choice she witnessed her father make many years before. As the book sweeps across six ages and two continents, the life of the narrator shadows the span of Taiwan's history from the end of Japanese colonial guideline to the ages under martial laws and, finally, to Taiwan's change into a democracy. But, most importantly, Green Island is a lush and lyrical story of a family group and a region grappling with the nuances of complicity and survival, increasing the question: What lengths would you be willing to move for those you love?
