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Title: Dream of the Walled City by Lisa Huang Fleischman ISBN: 0-671-04229-7 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: WOW -- What an Awesome Story!
Comment: "Dream of the Walled City" is the BEST book about China I've ever read -- and I've read HUNDREDS! My grandfather went to China from Sweden in 1892, about the time Lisa's "grandmother" was born. My father was born in Xian in 1904, as was I in 1942. Like Lisa's, my family fled to Taiwan in 1950, where my son was born in 1968. The main difference between Lisa's "family" and mine is that we are "white Chinese" Americans. We share much, but because we're Anglos, much is also different. What we do share are those memorable China roots -- and Lisa has written about those roots with such eloquent style, superb storytelling, and fascinating accuracy. I'm getting this book for Christmas for my friends and family. Thanks, Lisa, for a poignant look back in time that makes our todays richer!
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Book I Have Read This Year
Comment: "Dream of the Walled City" is an emotionally moving account of the life of Jade Virtue, a self-described ordinary woman who chronicles extraordinary times. The writing is fluid, if not poetic (reminiscent, in places, of Virginia Wolff), and the characters are at once dynamic and realistic. The story exquisitely weaves the quotidian events of Jade's life with the seismic political and industrial developments of Twentieth Century China. The story is immediately enrapturing and also provides a unique overview of some of the important events in the history of modern China. "Walled City" tells its story with grace: it is superbly written; it is at times humorous, at others tragic or shocking (or both); and it is at all times engrossing. The New Yorker recently praised the book and I was not surprised to read in that review a favorable comparison to Dickens's "Tale of Two Cities."
"Walled City" is the best book I've read this year, by far.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good first novel
Comment: I believe this is Lisa Huang Fleischman's first novel, and it's a fine piece of work. From what I understand, this is her maternal grandmother's life story, and Fleischman relates it very well. The story is compelling and the characters are captivating. If anything, the greatest weakness of the story may be that of all the characters, the main character is the least interesting of all. The narrative itself, however, is quite interesting, if only for the observations it lends of life in China during the rise of communism.
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Title: Wooden Fish Songs by Ruthanne Lum McCunn ISBN: 0807062294 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 09 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Crescent: A Novel by Diana Abu-Jaber ISBN: 039305747X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China by Kay Ann Johnson, Amy Klatzkin ISBN: 0963847279 Publisher: Yeong & Yeong Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber ISBN: 0156028778 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks ISBN: 0142001430 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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