Red Azalea - Anchee Min - Aubrey

[Luke]

Red Azalea, Anchee Min, 1993, China (China/United States), MEMOIR

"Finally, I must give special mention to Min's prose, short and sweetly staccato and ripe with metaphors that my mind, subsumed as it is in European and American literature, rarely encounters. It especially shines while she is in the full throes of her sexuality, the mindfulness of the nonconforming aspects of its passion drowned in the delight of its realization, both during the beginning of one love..."

(Aubrey, review)

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[Sue]

I read this long before my time on GR and have no review. I do want to say that my memory of this book is a strong 5*