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edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
category: Drama
published: Feb 2009
ISBN:9780887548635
publisher: Playwrights Canada Press

A Nanking Winter

by Marjorie Chan

tagged: canadian
Description

Marjorie Chan's gripping narrative intertwines the past and the present, transporting the reader between Irene and a small group of unlikely heroes caught in the invasion. Scrambling to create a refuge from the horror, the band's struggle to survive binds them in a promise that will span the ages of time, while Irene struggles to reveal the truth despite her publisher's conservative worries. a nanking winter brings the horror and endurance of a nation's history into stark focus with breathtaking clarity and brutal honesty.

About the Author

Marjorie Chan is a playwright/performer from Toronto. She has extensive performance experience with Theatre for Young Audiences, delighting children from Moncton to Vancouver. In 2003, Marjorie was the recipient of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance in Theatre for Young Audiences. She has written several radio dramas for CBC Radio and conducted a collective creation project with teenagers called "Definitely Not Your Parents’ Radio." China Doll (Scirocco Drama, 2004), her first stage play, was produced by Nightwood Theatre in 2004. It was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. Marjorie is also a contributor to Scirocco Drama’s two–volume Where is Here? anthology with the play Spring Arrival.

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