Shan Sa

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October 26, 1972 in Beijing, China

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Shan Sa is a French author born in Beijing in 1972. The Girl Who Played Go was the first of her novels to be published outside of France. It won the Goncourt des Lycéens Prize in 2001 and earned critical acclaim worldwide. Her second novel to appear in English translation is "The Empress" (2006).

Shan Sa was born on October 26, 1972 in Beijing to a scholarly family . Her real name is Yan Ni Ni, then she adopted the pseudonym Shan Sa, taken from a poem of Bai Juyi.

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Average rating: 3.56 · 2,631 ratings · 362 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Empress: A Novel 3.49 avg rating — 1,263 ratings — published 2003 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa, Adriana Hunter (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 1,058 ratings — published 2001 — 31 editions	My rating:
	Alexander and Alestria 3.06 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Porte De La Paix Céleste 3.33 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Les Quatre Vies Du Saule 3.22 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Conspirateurs 3.41 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Imperatriz by Shan Sa, Gonçalo Paça (Tradutor) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Duša citre 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	La Cithare nue 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	fleurs de la pensée chinoise 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating:

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“Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.”
― Shan Sa, Empress: A Novel

tags: birth , existence , life , nature

19 people liked it

“Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.”
― Shan Sa, The Girl Who Played Go

tags: go , happiness

11 people liked it

“Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more pain, no more fears. You sleep so well there.
Dying is like rubbing snow together, setting fire to a whole winter of cold and ice.”
― Shan Sa, The Girl Who Played Go

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