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Terrence Cheng's grandmother was a senator in the Chinese Nationalist Party, and his grandfather was a prisoner-of-war captured by the Japanese during World War II. Both survived and moved their family to Taiwan after the Communists came to power in 1949. Cheng was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1972, and immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1973. He earned his MFA in Fiction at the University of Miami, FL, where he was a James Michener Fellow. Director of Corporate Website Marketing for Random House Inc., he also teaches fiction at Lehman College-CUNY. He has lived most of his life in New York. Cheng's official website is http://www.sonsofheaven.com.
Sons of Heaven is an epic novel set against the backdrop of one of modern history's most haunting events: the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
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Terrence Cheng's Summer Reading List
Man's Fate
by Andre Malreaux
Since publishing my own novel, people have asked me several times, "You must have read Man’s Fate by Malreaux." Or insinuated that it's an influence of some kind. But I've never read it! So I feel guilty. I must read it so I can carry on that conversation.
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
The Oprah hype-scandal about this book has died down enough that I can read it with a clear head and formulate my own opinions without being swayed by everyone else's. I really hope it's good!
Emperor of Ocean Park
by Stephen J. Carter
A book I'm not going to wait for the hype to die down on before reading. I actually read the first page and thought, "Wow, this guy is good!" Then I never got to continue on. So I'll force myself to at some point.
Travels with Charley
by John Steinbeck
I went to the Steinbeck Centennial celebration months back and an actor was reading parts of this book between speakers and it was just great. So I have to read it now and absorb it for myself. I'm not going to lie and put down a bunch of other books and say I'm going to read them. Honestly, I'll be lucky to get through these, since The Corrections and Emperor of Ocean Park are pretty hefty!
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