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Cargando... Green Island: A novelpor Shawna Yang Ryan
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Excellent family saga with the history of Taiwan in the background. ( ) I had a hard time with this book. There was so much about the nation's history that I didn't know, it became difficult to figure out what each element meant to the characters. I felt like I missed out of much of the subtle movements that could have made this very alive for me as a reader. That being said, the story itself is very moving. I was touched many times, and that means that, once I was able to accept that the author just wasn't going to let me in on details, I focused only on the interactions of the characters. And that ended up as the right choice. I really enjoyed this work...it has a lot to offer readers who are interested in the dynamics that form between people, even when they are only faint friends or neighbors. The impact of these events for the nation and its people really came through on the emotional level. For a read that shows a different nation and the impact its policies had on its people, try The Family Made of Dust: A Novel of Loss and Rebirth in the Australian Outback. 4 stars! This is probably not the sort of book most readers will "enjoy," but it's one that I think most should read. Though the pace of the book slows significantly about halfway through, the story itself is so thought-provoking and contributes to the reader's historical knowledge that it's worth pushing through to the end. I could easily see this being a required reading in a literature course, or in a course on Asian history. Even beyond that, I would recommend it to readers who enjoy historical reads, whether or not they have a specific interest in Asian culture. I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Although this book is on the darker side, I liked it. It deals with some of the tougher times that the people of Taiwan went through in their battle for a free country, told through the eyes of one woman starting at the day of her birth. The characters were well written, I felt almost like this was a memoir instead of a work of fiction. I also came out of this book with a little bit of a history lesson on Taiwan. I think the author did a great job researching this subject, and it made me interesting in learning even more and reading some of the works she referenced at the end. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Shawna Yang Ryan's propulsive storytelling carries us through a bloody time in Taiwanese history, its implications still reverberating today. The story is haunted by questions about whether Taiwan is a part of China or its own country, what the costs are of standing up for one's beliefs and by the choices made by one father and his daughter. Green Island is a tough, unsentimental and moving novel that is a memorial not only to the heroes, but also to the survivors." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer A stunning story of love, betrayal, and family, set against the backdrop of a changing Taiwan over the course of the twentieth century. February 28, 1947: Trapped inside the family home amid an uprising that has rocked Taipei, Dr. Tsai delivers his youngest daughter, the unnamed narrator of Green Island, just after midnight as the city is plunged into martial law. In the following weeks, as the Chinese Nationalists act to crush the opposition, Dr. Tsai becomes one of the many thousands of people dragged away from their families and thrown into prison. His return, after more than a decade, is marked by alienation from his loved ones and paranoia among his community--conflicts that loom over the growing bond he forms with his youngest daughter. Years later, this troubled past follows her to the United States, where, as a mother and a wife, she too is forced to decide between what is right and what might save her family--the same choice she witnessed her father make many years before. As the novel sweeps across six decades and two continents, the life of the narrator shadows the course of Taiwan's history from the end of Japanese colonial rule to the decades under martial law and, finally, to Taiwan's transformation into a democracy. But, above all, Green Island is a lush and lyrical story of a family and a nation grappling with the nuances of complicity and survival, raising the question: how far would you be willing to go for the ones you love? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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