I have conflict feelings regarding this novel, Some parts i really enjoyed mainly first half of story. In the second half, i was quite annoyed with the repeatedly sex scenes, sex reference ...etc. It was really pointless; it added nothing to the story. i wanted this book to explain and illustrate th...
This is an easy-to-read book that can likely be read in one sitting. I believe this only took a few hours for me to read, and that's because I linger on Shan Sa's poetic writing style. I hadn't known that the two characters alternated their chapters in narration (the edition I read didn't say so i...
3½ / 5 >Mi ero avvicinata a questo libro prima di tutto perché mi piace il Go e quindi il titolo mi aveva subito attratto. L'idea che mi ero fatta vedendo i POV alternati della cinese e del soldato giapponese era che ogni capitolo, ogni cambio di punto di vista narrante, fosse una mossa nella loro ...
This is a tragic love story that ends brutally. Shan Sa's novel doesn't seem to have lost much in the translation from French to English; the voices of the two protagonists are beautifully rendered, one male and one female. I was a little dubious about a female literary romance author writing a male...
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