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Title: Cloud Mountain by B.D. Wong, Aimee Liu ISBN: 1-57042-480-2 Publisher: Warner Adult Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $17.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Satisfying read
Comment: I really enjoyed this book, especially the perspective on how the Chinese were treated in America at the turn of the century, and how Americans were treated with equal discrimination and harshness in China during the twentieth century. I found Hope a very strong and independent character. To sacrifice her own and her children's safety on so many occassions, and to suffer such hardship (even as far as starvation!) portrayed her love for Paul to a fault. Cloud Mountain is an incredible tale.
Rating: 5
Summary: 3 hankies - you'll love this!!!
Comment: I bought this cassette because I love to "read" when I drive and I love to listen to B.D. Wong. He has the ability to take you deep into the story and his voices are so perfect to each character. This is a beautiful story, so full of love and yet so sad. You feel the pain Hope feels as she and Paul struggle against American prejudice and then as the Chinese cultural revolution threatens to tear them apart again. I loved the cassette so much I am now reading the book in non-abridged. It's a real tear jerker, yet it's so satisfying. What a wonderful love story!
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful Imagery & a respose to another review
Comment: Aimme E. Liu has written a wonderful fictional accounting of a true story. I have been a friend of the Luis family for over forty five years. Aimee's cousin John was my boyhood friend. And we still keep up. The family story has always fasinaated me. (John is Herb Luis' son, Teddy in the book.)Although Aimee says it is about 70% true, I know through conversations with John's mother that basically ALL of the major persons, dates, places, and events are true. The 30% is mostly side sories and details for dramatic effect.
I also want to point out that in a prior review of "Cloud Mountain" by "Elizabeth" she states that the only place in 1908 where the name Jennifer existed was Cornwall. Well, the fact is Hope's real name WAS Jenny Trescott. In fact, I found that Aimee used family names for fictional charactors in several instances. But never the real name for the real person.
Although I have to say that I read this book because I had already heard the story and had a personal interest in it. But even if I hadn't I still would not have been able to put it down. Aimee Liu's use of words to describe are incredibly original (I don't know how she came up with some of them) and they really do "paint" a picture in your mind as you read.
She is a real literary artist.
This is not only a love story. In fact, I would just as much descibe it as a story of courage, of two people who dared to cross the bariers that a bigoted society had placed between them. It is also the story of a man committed to saving his counrty by bringing it democracy even if it could have cost him his life. It is a story of a woman who stood by him, travelled halfway around the world to an unstable society trying to grow up into democracy, but turned out to be a house of cards.
Read this book and take a trip back to a past and place few Americans are aware of. Enjoy the exciting people and places, but also learn a history of a different place, time, and people.
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