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Writing brings Tiananmen Square massacre to life - Miami Herald - Nov. 10, 2002 - BY DANIEL A. GRECH- Long before writing his first novel, Sons of Heaven (Morrow, $24.95), Terrence Cheng took a stab at metabolizing the horrors of the Tiananmen
Square massacre through fiction. He had just finished his junior
year of high school in June 1989 when the Chinese army killed
students protesting for democracy in the capital...
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Pittsburgh Gazette review June 26, 2002
-- Terrence Cheng couldn’t have hit on a more compelling or timely
topic for a novel: What happened to the young man who stood in the
path of army tanks rumbling into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square June
4, 1989?
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Feature story in Newsday June 20, 2002 -- The
flames. The shootings. The teenagers dying. And, finally, the
anonymous young man who so breathtakingly stood in front of moving
tanks and actually stopped them. And then disappeared.
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LA Times Book Review May 19, 2002-- The
writing here is terse and often beautiful. It improves as the
violence increases, so when a house burns unjustly: "He
listened now to the crackle and blaze as the small house crumbled
and cut itself in half."
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San Francisco Chronicle review -- Xiao-Di's
journey alone would be enough for a novel, but Cheng takes an extra
leap here by making Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader responsible
for the turn of events, a character. Deng's sections are routinely
shorter than either Lu or Xiao-Di's, but they are powerful and
feature some of Cheng's best writing.
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Publishers Weekly, Starred Review, May 6, 2002 -- Sons of Heaven by Terrence
Cheng -- Morrow, $24.95 (309p) --
ISBN 0-06-000243-3 -- Centering around the Tiananmen Square massacre and its aftermath, this
remarkably structured and textured debut epic seeks to attach a face to
the mysterious man who, by stepping in front of the rolling army tanks,
become the most recognizable symbol of the massacres. Cheng succeeds in
his endeavor, and in the process he gives China a face as well – one so
vivid and provocative it’s hard to walk away without a fresh impression
of the massacre, the 13 years since, and modern-day China in general.
Three months before the massacre...
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Booklist -- Packed with emotion and
desperation, Cheng's novel speaks for a man who needed a voice.
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Library Journal, April 15, 2002
-- A
ripping good story about a headline event of great power and
resonance,...
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