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The Girl Who Played Go (Hardcover)

by Shan Sa (Author), Adriana Hunter (Translator)
4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 340 pages
  • Publisher: Chatto & Windus (1 May 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0701174005
  • ISBN-13: 978-0701174002
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 651,391 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Measured . . . Precise . . . The historical backdrop, itself a forceful character, provides a compelling context for this economical story of impossible love."
-Sara Ivry, "San Francisco Chronicle"
"Spare prose adorned with images that linger in the mind . . . In this elegant translation . . . the dreamlike, mesmerizing alternation of voices stands in uneasy contrast to the operatic violence of the plot."
-Janice P. Nimura, "New York Times Book Review
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"What makes Sa's novel so satisfying is the deceptive simplicity of her narrative strategy . . . We watch in fascination as the terrible secrets of their lives begin to coincide."
-Charles Matthews, "San Jose Mercury News
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"Shan manipulates the scope of silence with a wisdom beyond her years."
-Elsa Gaztambide, "Booklist
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"Dreamy . . . powerful . . . this unlikely love story . . . is beautiful, shocking, and sad."
-Jennifer Reese, "Entertainment Weekly
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"Lovely and delicate as a carved jade flower . . . This is beautiful writing."
-Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal
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"Harrowing . . . While exploring epic themes like the loss of innocence and the meaning of honor, it lingers on the tiny, exquisite details of life in a remote, cosmopolitan Manchurian town in the thirties."
-Elizabeth Schmidt, "Vogue
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The Big Issue, April 14-20 2003
The Girl Who Played Go is a sparse, delicately constructed, slowly paced novel, but no less moving for that.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, 17 Jun 2003
By J. A. Evans "Snaede" (Uk) - See all my reviews
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This is a really striking novel. I originally bought it because of my interest in the game of Go. However this is largely a side issue to the novel itself - although a game of Go between the two characters frames and defines their whole life. Written simultaneously from the first person viewpoint of the two main characters - a manchurian girl and a japanese soldier in the Japanese/Manchurian occupation before the Second War war it tells the story of their thoughts, lives, reactions to the world around them and the brewing war between Japan and China. Their relationships and loves, which eventually, yet obliquely bring them together. The end is gobsmacking - and not at all what you are expecting.
Marvellous book, well worth your money!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Vivid, Colourful and Tragic, 18 May 2003
By Laurent Boulanger - See all my reviews
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This unique novel is set during war time between China and Japan, and we are living inside the mind of the two progagonists, a young Chinese woman and a Japanese soldier, who meet while playing 'go' (a kind of Asian chess game) in the city square.

The writing is powerful, poetic and disturbing, and the story is gripping enough to make you want to read to the last page. There are some very vivid and violent scenes, so this is not a novel for the faint-hearted. The translation from the French holds amazingly well (not something common in all works translated) and at times it's hard to believe this work wasn't originally written in English--well done Adriana Hunter. Both characters tell their stories from the first view point, and my only criticism is that there isn't much difference in the voices (they both seem to have the same gift for describing details), and at times, particularly towards the beginning, I couldn't tell immediately which chapter belonged to whom.

However, it certainly a memorable novel, and I strongly recommend it.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Confucius, 13 May 2003
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The key message of the book, which struck me instantenously, is Confucius's sentence : "... a man who knows humanity will never agree to preserve his life at the expense of that humanity ..." This is Shan Sa's extraordinary declaration of love to mankind.
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