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3.5/5. A complicated, intricate novel that asked an awful lot of its reader in order to stay engaged. Some of the deeper digressions into music were arcane and, to me, just a bit too precious, but musicians may have a deeper appreciation. The descriptions about Tiananmen Square in 1989 were, by turns, dreamlike and brutal, which I suppose would have been what the situation was like in real life had I been there and not just a teenager watching it on television. I didn’t enjoy this novel as much
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Beautiful, devastating, ultimately hopeful. This book follows two connected families through the last century of China's history. I thought the section in the middle about the cultural revolution was particularly powerful.
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For a variety of reasons, I've struggled with writing this review for months (I finished it in March; it's now December), so in the interest of keeping my resolution of writing at least a blurb about everything I read this year, I'll stick to some basic points.
It's a complex multigenerational epic about a Chinese family who immigrated to Canada, where the fallout of the past ends up mapping the paths of their present. The action moves fluidly back and forth between time periods, gradually hittin ...more
It's a complex multigenerational epic about a Chinese family who immigrated to Canada, where the fallout of the past ends up mapping the paths of their present. The action moves fluidly back and forth between time periods, gradually hittin ...more
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