Thank you for inviting me, Leslie! And to your second question, yes – while the historical events are absolutely true, and some of the incidents during the students’ journey are based on family stories and absolutely true, it is definitely a work of fiction.Īs for taking the leap, well at any point in time, authors have about a dozen stories swimming around in our brains and honestly I’m never quite sure why one of them will surface and insist that they become your next book. Can you talk more about what made you take the leap with telling this story? And also-just to be clear-while this is based on true events, it’s fiction. I understand you were inspired to write THE LIBRARY OF LEGENDS because of your father’s stories of his life as a refugee student traveling with his school, much like Lian. Please join me in welcoming the lovely and talented Janie Chang to the author interview series: Leslie Lindsay: THE LIBRARY OF LEGENDS is about self-preservation, but also family and close bonds in a sense, it’s about ‘chosen family’ and also a little of group behavior –what happens when individuals are seemingly thrust together under adverse situations.
I found the myths and folklore fascinating from both a cultural and literary standpoint, historical, too. – Kate Quinn, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Huntress “ The Library of Legends is a gorgeous, poetic journey threaded with mist and magic about a group from a Chinese university who take to the road to escape the Japanese invasion of 1937 – only to discover that danger stalks them from within. Unexpected bonds develop on this pilgrimage…a cautious romance, but also death and skepticism, a reunification, and more. Together, along with about one hundred students, and staff, Lian must walk a thousand miles to safety while protecting a 500-year-old collection of myths and folklore known as “The Library of Legends.” It’s 1937 and Japanese bombs fall on the city of Nanking when 19-year old Hu Lianand her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. But this is all based on true events, taking place during WWII. Here is where I knew little of this piece of history. This is a captivating saga of a young woman traveling across China with a convoy of student refugees, fleeing the hostiles of a brutal war with Japan.
~ WEDNESDAYS WITH WRITERS| ALWAYS WITH A BOOK~īlending history and beautiful imagery, plus Chinese myth and folklore, THE LIBRARY OF LEGENDS (WilliamMorrow, May 12 2020) brings the past to light in this atmospheric tale. Based on true events of the Sino-Japanese war, THE LIBRARY OF LEGENDS is a poetic and compelling piece of historical fiction.
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