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A review by leighanneslit
Red Azalea by Anchee Min
5.0
Wow wow wow.
This book was phenomenal. Anchee Min tells her story of growing up and coming of age in Maoist China. Such an interesting and horrifying look at Maoist China. Reading this after having read several of her fictional works also showed me how much of her own story she put into those works.
I had to keep reminding myself as I was reading that this wasn't fiction. This was a real story from a real person. Every time I stopped to think about that, it just hit me like a ton of bricks. The emotion that she puts forth in her writing is just amazing. The only thing that was slightly bothersome was the formatting of dialogue, she does do any breaks or quotations, but its an extremely minor complaint.
This book is amazing and one of the best books I have read all year, I can't recommend it enough.
This book was phenomenal. Anchee Min tells her story of growing up and coming of age in Maoist China. Such an interesting and horrifying look at Maoist China. Reading this after having read several of her fictional works also showed me how much of her own story she put into those works.
I had to keep reminding myself as I was reading that this wasn't fiction. This was a real story from a real person. Every time I stopped to think about that, it just hit me like a ton of bricks. The emotion that she puts forth in her writing is just amazing. The only thing that was slightly bothersome was the formatting of dialogue, she does do any breaks or quotations, but its an extremely minor complaint.
This book is amazing and one of the best books I have read all year, I can't recommend it enough.