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Looking for Tank Man

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Looking for Tank Man

By: Ha Jin
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
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A Harvard student from China discovers the fraught, hidden history of the Tiananmen Square massacre in this powerful novel of protest and suppression from the National Book Award-winning author.

When the Chinese premier visits Harvard, international student Pei Lulu encounters a lone protester, who will drastically change her understanding of the People’s Republic and her own place in the world. For the first time, Lulu learns of the 1989 protest movement and the government’s violent response. Determined to find out more, she seeks answers from her family, who share surprising stories of their involvement, and from a formative university course based on powerful firsthand accounts.

At once a compelling coming-of-age tale and a poignant tribute to the courage of activists, Looking for Tank Man keeps this tragedy alive in the public memory and warns against the dangers of authoritarian regimes.

©2025 Ha Jin (P)2025 Recorded Books Coming of Age Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Political United States World Literature China
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A disappointing book that never quite takes off. I was left wishing I could read Lulu’s thesis instead.

A great idea lost in so many wayward details

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After eight chapters I could not continue. All about which PhD programs accepted her, which would be most lucrative, smutty talk, and only peripheral occasional reference to the title subject (Tianmen square violence, or Chinese Communist Party historical dishonesty)
Poorly done first-person literary prose skills.

Had to quit

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