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Chinook
Sep 21, 2019 rated it it was amazing
This is an absolutely incredible narrative. I’ve read other memoirs and histories of China and so I wasn’t unaware of the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, but this book really drives home the horrors of the time. Perhaps it’s because we’re following relatively privileged people and seeing that even they can’t protect themselves from having their lives crushed by the historical forces around them.

It’s a really hard read. Footbinding, arrest, war, famine, re-education, separation from family,
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Nada Ammar
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قصة ثلاثة أجيال لعائلة صينية - مؤلفة الرواية - كتبت قصتها وقصة أمها وجدتها وما عانوه في ظل حكم ماو والاضطهاد وصنوف العذاب والقهر ووضع المرأة بالنسبة لكل جيل ونظرة المجتمع لها ودورها الذي ينتظر منها أن تلعبه ...
لقد تعرفت وعشت من خلال هذه الرواية تاريخ بلد لم أكن أعرف عنه سوى الشيء القليل .. ترددت في البداية لقراءة هذه الرواية ربما لأنها تتحدث عن الصين وهو بلد لم أفكر من قبل بالتعرف عليه وربما حجم الرواية وثقل الكتاب هو ما جعلني أتردد فأغلب ق
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