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Title: Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China (New York Review Books Classics) by David Kidd, John Lanchester ISBN: 1-59017-040-7 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Almost better than it has a right to be
Comment: Memoirs of the surviving privileged classes who lost everything in twentieth-century revolutions can often seem terribly materialistic and self-pitying: when displaced aristocrats wail and wail for their lost tiaras or smashed porcelain, without a jot of sympathy for why they were asked to leave in the first place, you can begin perversely to develop sympathy for the cadres who called these people class parasites and threw them out. David Kidd's memoir of marrying into an ancient and wealthy Chinese family in 1948 shows every sign of such a work, but it's far better than it starts out to be (given his adoration for lives of privilege and his almost willfuil refusal to see the point of view of why anyone would support the Communists in 1949 in the first place). The superb descriptions of the Yu family's rotting but beautiful manor are done with great humor and artistry as well as with melancholy, and the very memorable portrait of the phlegmatic and wry Yus themselves seems to bring additional perspective and depth to the material. What emerges in the end is (despite the book's brevity) a very artful and moving snapshot of a world in transition
Rating: 5
Summary: A Rare Glimpse into a World Gone By . . .
Comment: Beautifully, lyrically rendered in the author's inimitable voice, full of haunting descriptions of a world that is gone forever yet never to be forgotten. David Kidd was truly one of a kind, unique in every way.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Sorrow of Transition and Change
Comment: This book haunts..it stays with you as a most intimate portrait of those special and tender people caught in the transition between the old China and the Revolution in 1948. No account has ever brought more tears and love for those real people who saw and felt their world change almost beyond their understanding.
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Title: The Tenants of Moonbloom (New York Review Books Classics) by Edward Lewis Wallant, Dave Eggers ISBN: 1590170709 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Mr Phillips by John Lanchester ISBN: 0140298363 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple ISBN: 0670031844 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 31 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Towers of Trebizond (New York Review Books Classics) by Rose MacAulay, Jan Morris ISBN: 159017058X Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel by John Lanchester ISBN: 0312420366 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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