“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —George Santayana
"Cheng is a painter and a cinematographer and a wordsmith all at once." -Colum McCann, author of 'Dancer'
*The new paperback edition of SONS OF HEAVEN is now available!
Click on the SONS OF HEAVEN book jacket for more information about Cheng's
highly acclaimed debut novel. SONS OF HEAVEN is a fictional account of
the Tank Man's story, the unknown hero who shocked the world during the
Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989.
DEEP IN THE MOUNTAINS is Terrence Cheng's second novel. In 1992, when Deep in the Mountains begins, Master Zhu Qizhan, the great Chinese artist, is 100 years old and still experimenting with form and color and pushing himself to create. Then a lonely boy from America enters Master Zhu's world. Through the artist's stories of the amazing history he has lived through, the boy learns who he is and what he can become, in this beautiful, haunting story of growing up and accepting life's challenges—and its joys.