by Geling Yan
May well have been good. Didn't make it into my travel bag.
On completion: No, this was not a total waste of time. This novel is based on real events. It is about what actually happened in December 1937 in an American church which housed Chinese soldiers, prostitutes and 16 naive schoolgirls while the Japanese invaded and massacred all and everyone in Nanjin...
This feels like the ying to Ha Jin's yang in "Nanjing Requiem".Geling's lead character/s is male whereas Ha Jin's is a female.Geling's narrative about the infamous Nanjing incident is more vivid and much more cruel compared to Ha Jin's account and much more compact.It's a toss up but I have to say I...
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