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As the Japanese military invades 1930s Manchuria, a young girl approaches her own sexual coming of age. Drawn into a complex triangle with two boys, she distracts herself from the onslaught of adulthood by playing the game of go with strangers in a public square--and yet the force of desire, like thContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Rules of the game
The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa, translated by Adriana Hunter 280pp, Chatto & Windus, £12.99 Shan Sa has an extraordinary CV. Born in Beijing, she started writing at seven and enjoyed success as a teenage poet. At 18 she moved to Paris to study, wo ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
2 Reviews
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I thought I would enjoy this more than I had... I have a casual interest in Chinese history, and play a bit of Go, so this seemed like an ideal read. However, the Go-like structure of the narrative failed to make up for a rather uninteresting story line. I also found the characters to be too flat an ... (continue)
G-J said on Mar 12, 2008 | Add your feedback
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When I encounter a good book, I always wish that it's thicker than all The Old Statement plus The New Statement added together ... this book is one of it!
LOVE this love story! Never can guess how the story develops, so intriguing! I would love to buy it just to be able to re-read it again and ... (continue)
xYang said on Nov 15, 2007 | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Paperback 288 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 1400032288
- ISBN-13: 9781400032280
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Oct 12, 2004
- Dimensions: 2000 mm x 1290 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9781400032280 | Paperback | $14.95 | $12.78 | bn.com |
| $14.95 | $10.76 | The Book Depository | ||
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A bit of a Chinese Zhivago
The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa Chatto & Windus £12.99, pp352 Shan Sa is a phenomenon. While still in her teens, she had several collections of poetry published in China and, at 15, she was the youngest person ever to be elected to the Beijing Writ ... (read full critics)