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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Well, I seem to be a minority of one since everybody else loves this book. Solimine's East Asian studies seem to shine through, at least with respect to providing a feel for China, its culture, and the mindset of its people. However, there was nothing else I liked about this book. I did not care for the characters, I did not like the story of how her parents found each other despite different backgrounds and a structured social order, and I really hate the use of footnotes in a book of fiction: either something is sufficiently important to wrap into the narrative or it isn't. In this case, it wasn't. Very disappointing. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In the mid-1990s, an American teenager, named Lao K in Chinese, stands on Coal Hill, a park in Beijing, a loop of rope in her hand. Will she assist her Chinese homestay mother, Li-Ming, who is dying of cancer, in ending her life, or will she choose another path? Twenty years later, Lao K receives a book written by Li-Ming called "Empire of Glass," a narrative that chronicles the lives of Li-Ming and her husband, Wang, in pre and post-revolutionary China over the last half of the twentieth century. Lao K begins translating the story, which becomes the novel we are reading. But, as translator, how can Lao K separate fact from fiction, and what will her role be in the book's final chapter? A grand, experimental epic--Lao K's story is told in footnotes that run throughout the book--that chronicles the seismic changes in China over the last half century through the lens of one family's experiences, Empire of Glass is an investigation into the workings of human memory and the veracity of oral history that pushes the boundaries of language and form in stunning and unforgettable ways. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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