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Cargando... Fifty Words for Rain: A Novel (edición 2020)por Asha Lemmie (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book was such a frustrating read for me. How it is rated so high I cannot even fathom; to date it is the only book that I have rated one star, and I am usually generous with my ratings. I was initially drawn to the book because it has a lovely cover and I am a cover snob. Even my coworker and fellow cover snob agreed, there is something about the dark blue and the pink that is really quite pleasing. However, upon reading the book, it became clear that I had been bamboozled, and for once my method of choosing books by their covers failed (who could've seen that coming?). Unlike the cover, there was nothing pleasing about the plot or the writing, which is why I have rated it so low. I took off a few stars for plot, another star for the poor writing, and finally I dropped it down to one star today because months after reading I am somehow still thinking about how mad I am at this book. The plot was entirely too predictable, all of the characters were flat, and the ending was equal parts dull and nonsensical. At the heart of it all it attempted to reconcile poor Nori with her supposed place in society, but it read more as tragedy porn. I went back and forth between two and three stars. The story held my interest. Everything was SEEPED with drama. That drama was sometimes in line with the characters and plot, and sometimes it just seemed overwrought. I didn't buy the character development. It felt inconsistent. Often characters changed their minds or made snap decisions that didn't seem at all in line with the circumstances or with who they were shown to be up to that point. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller! From debut author Asha Lemmie, ??a lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together.? ??Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times??bestselling author of The Nightingale Kyoto, Japan, 1948. ??Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist.? Such is eight-year-old Noriko ??Nori? Kamiza??s first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents?? imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her skin. The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in, only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life, despite her natural intellect and curiosity. But when chance brings her older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him an unlikely ally with whom she forms a powerful bond??a bond their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. Because now that Nori has glimpsed a world in which perhaps there is a place for her after all, she is ready to fight to be a part of it??a battle that just might cost her everything. Spanning decades and continents, Fifty Words for Rain is a dazzling epic about the ties that bind, the ties that give you str No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This is a story of resilience and love. ( )