The C$100,000 ($74,700) prize was awarded in Toronto by a
five-member jury.
The jury wrote that they were entranced by the book's "detailed,
layered, complex drama of classical musicians and their loved
ones trying to survive two monstrous insults to their humanity:
Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution in mid-twentieth century China
and the Tiananmen Square massacre."
The book had also been nominated for the Booker Prize, but last
month lost out to American Paul Beatty's "The Sellout", a biting
satire on race relations in the United States.
(Reporting by Jeffrey Hodgson; Editing by Michael Perry)
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