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The Girl Who Played Go (Paperback)

by Shan Sa (Author), Adriana Hunter (Translator)
4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Chatto & Windus; New edition edition (1 May 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0701176121
  • ISBN-13: 978-0701176129
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,208,367 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In Japanese-occupied Manchuria, in the Square of a Thousand Winds, snow falls as a 16 year-old Chinese girl beats all-comers at the game of go. Unknown to her, one of her opponents is a young Japanese officer.

About the Author
Shan Sa was born in 1972 in Beijing. She left China for France in 1990, studied in Paris and worked for two years for the painter Balthus. Her two previous novels were awarded the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman and the Prix Cazes. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, 13 Sep 2004
By Jess (Cheshire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Girl Who Played Go (Paperback)
Breathtakingly written, Sa's elegant language carries you through the whirland of love and sorrow life brings. Somehow she manages to capture the deep intensities of love, and leave you with a dark haunting sorrow as the book climbs gracefully to its dramatic climax.

Not only is the language beautiful, but the story it relates is tense, gripping and filled with a rich passion rarely found in contemporary fiction. Set in a shaky country, amid troubled times where people are forced to struggle against all odds to mould their futures in the finicky political environment around them, their is a sort of shy hope that comes with tragedy of love and betrayal depicted.

I've never read any of Shan Sa's other works, but after the taste this book has given me, I'm intrigued by her style, and intoxicated by her portrayal of China, and I've no doubt I will go on to savour every last word she writes. Definiately one of, if not the best book I've ever read.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Silk Cuts, 6 Oct 2004
By Is (Tokyo) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Girl Who Played Go (Paperback)
Shan Sa has written an aloof little book about the violent Japanese occupation of China, as experienced by a Manchurian girl and an officer from Tokyo.

A good half of the book builds up to their eventual meeting over a prolonged game of go. There are quite a few flashbacks to the Tokyo earthquake and the officer's earlier affairs with geishas and prostitutes, while the Manchurian girl gets unwittingly involved in the underground resistance.

Narrated alternatively by these two main characters, the short chapters offer brief, haiku-style glimpses of the events. The mood is dark throughout and full of almost clichéd Chinese lyricism - whirling snow, soft silk, a girl's white cheek... Love is depicted as a destructive force, a power-struggle, mirrored in the cruelty of war.

Still, the story somehow failed to move me. In the end it seemed to me to be a rather empty piece of literature, in spite of all its violent emotions and poetic images.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful hours of reading.., 27 Dec 2006
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Shan Sa is very skillful in describing the feelings of both her kind and the man-kind with an unusual way of exposing the story. I enjoyed reading it, even quoted some parts in my daily life. Well done.
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