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lostalleycat 's review for:
I Am China
by Xiaolu Guo
First of all, I'm hooked by the cover. Even though it doesn't resemble the story at all, but who cares. I gotta hand it that the cover is lit.
The novel is written quite well. I admit Xiaolu is very poetic. The novel is written in multiple plot schemes and back-and-forth timeline which somehow I knew they're eventually connected to the novel's present day. China is very enigmatic as the whole entity. Its people, its culture, its language, and especially its politics. It will always be intriguing for China to be a background story.
Long story short, this is a love story. A love story of two star-crossed lovers, who fought for freedom, who looked for sense of purpose... across borders, across the oceans, across time.
The novel is written quite well. I admit Xiaolu is very poetic. The novel is written in multiple plot schemes and back-and-forth timeline which somehow I knew they're eventually connected to the novel's present day. China is very enigmatic as the whole entity. Its people, its culture, its language, and especially its politics. It will always be intriguing for China to be a background story.
Long story short, this is a love story. A love story of two star-crossed lovers, who fought for freedom, who looked for sense of purpose... across borders, across the oceans, across time.