Foreword; The Huis and Where They Came From; The Formation of the Hui Zu; The Fate of the Hui During and After the Qing Dynasty; Further Assimilation of Minorities and its effects of Muslims; How the Hui Zu Lives in China; Influential Muslim Personalities; Admiral Zheng He and His Achievements; Contributions of the Chinese Muslims; The Staunchness of the Chinese Muslims.
Eva Stachniak teaches Intercultural Communications at Sheridan College. Born in Poland, she is a graduate of McGill University. She now lives in Mississauga with her husband. This is her first novel.
[Stachniak's] human comedy is the oldest and best sort. Woven
through the inevitable sadness is wonder at the revelation of human
complexity and resilience.
*The Globe and Mail*
...the book that satisfied my three fictive R's: real people, real
places, real emotions.
*Books in Canada*
Offering a wealth of appealing sensory detail with what Clark
Blaise once termed "authorial generosity" (I saw the streets of the
cities, the shape and colour of people's clothes, tasted the food),
the novel portrays the lives of Central European characters as
journeys of survival in an age of tribal atrocities, whether those
atrocities were cloaked in Nazism, Communism, or national
vengeance.
*Books in Canada*
It's not easy for a fiction writer to keep up with history when
it's this big, but Stachniak and her characters do precisely that -
as their own secrets and lies and hard-worn resilience parallel the
extraordinary events happening around them. Necessary Lies is a
brave and ambitious novel and a worthy winner.
*Books in Canada*
Necessary Lies serves to remind where we are by reminding where
many of us have come from.
*Books in Canada*
Themes of personal betrayal, collective denial and historically
divided identities initially drive this story. Stachniak's world is
convincing and carefully wrought ... Necessary Lies satisfies most
with the expressive fluidity of its prose, and its sharp portrait
of a woman grappling with a bitter legacy.
*The Globe and Mail*
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