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Big Issue Wales
`beautifully descriptive and poignant prose'
Observer, Tom Chatfield
`Xinran evokes the multiple, layered cultures and customs of modern China'.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Miss Chopsticks tells the story of three sisters born into a family with no sons in a poor village in a province of northern China. Because of the shame compounded by their mother's inability to 'lay eggs' and their uselessness as daughters, the girls aren't given names but numbers. Women are like chopsticks, their father tells them; easily broken. A son, however, is the roof beam that holds up the house. After the two eldest sisters are sent off to marry men they neither love nor like (and after one sister kills herself rather than tarnish the family's good name), sisters Three, Five and Six leave the village for the city of Nanjing to carve their lot in life.
Perhaps this book doesn't have the most fast paced, accelerated and captivating of plots, but it is as true to the events portrayed as can be. Xinran interviewed these women before writing the book and, while they may not have been sisters in reality, their stories still deserve to be told and their lives still say something about the situation of women, their struggles and their rewards. I enjoyed it and I'm looking to pick up Xinran's Good Women of China next.
Perhaps this book doesn't have the most fast paced, accelerated and captivating of plots, but it is as true to the events portrayed as can be. Xinran interviewed these women before writing the book and, while they may not have been sisters in reality, their stories still deserve to be told and their lives still say something about the situation of women, their struggles and their rewards. I enjoyed it and I'm looking to pick up Xinran's Good Women of China next.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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This novel gives a very different view of today's China than you normally see. Set in modern China, it tells how three young women called Three, Five and Six come from a tiny village to the city of [[Nanjing]].
Events are quite ordinary, shopping and food and work and small confusions, but it gives you a strong feeling for the unfamiliar social values. But you are given a vivid picture of a fast-changing society.
You also see the weak position of women, especially in the villages. The young women's names reflect their birth-order in a family of six girls, and they have no other names.
Events are quite ordinary, shopping and food and work and small confusions, but it gives you a strong feeling for the unfamiliar social values. But you are given a vivid picture of a fast-changing society.
You also see the weak position of women, especially in the villages. The young women's names reflect their birth-order in a family of six girls, and they have no other names.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This isn't a book with much of a plot, but it is worth reading for anyone interested in the massive changes going on in China right now, and especially the changes in the lives of women and girls. I was recently in Beijing, and so many of the girls working in the street markets were from Chuzhou in Anhui Province - country girls learning to be city girls, just like the three girls in this story, Three, Five and Six. Their lack of names - just birth-order numbers - gives some indication of how unimportant they were to their family. They were chopsticks, not roof beams, but you will have to read the book to fully understand this reference.
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disapointing
First of all, the story was not very interesting then I was frustrated by the use of Enlgish language... plus the writer's literarcy skill is not impressive. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Jane
Contemporary China through the eyes of 3 peasant sisters living and...
Three, Five and Six are the names of three sisters who are part of a peasant fami;y of six girls and no sons. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Kiwifunlad
Culture Shock
A lovely book which covers the experiences of three sisters from the country as they make their lives in a large city. Read more
Published on 12 Nov 2009 by Alison
Xinran's "Chopsticks"
yet antoher very well written book from Xinran that takes us right into the heart of chinese life. I have read them all, looking forward to the next one.
Published on 10 July 2009 by Ms. Marie P. Claret
Roof-beams and Chopsticks
Miss Chopsticks is a lovely book about three sisters named Three, Five and Six, who leave their home in the country to work in the big city. Read more
Published on 6 Aug 2008 by Maybaby
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