About halfway through this chunkster - it‘s over 17 hours on audio. I‘m enjoying it so far. The writing is immersive, and the audio is dual narrated. One side of the story being told from present day backward, and the other side being told from the past forward. I assume where the stories meet will hold the choice that altered the course of their lives. ❤️📚🎧
pickI can't help it. He's such a good storyteller. I can't decide the author's view of women. At times, Mai Mai, Mary, Shavon, and Tess seem to be submissive, but they're also the ones who are behind the scenes, making things happen. Just like in Shogun. I was on the edge of my seat during the typhoon. Why isn't this a movie with Sam Heughn as Durk Streun, the Taipan?
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The story is beautifully told from 1947 forward and back to 2008. It starts in Shanghai with both Suchi and Haiwen bound in friendship and love but separated through war. They happen upon each other 20 years later in Hong Kong and 40 years later in LA. The book is rich in language from Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Mandarin, and English - even as an English written story.
Cute little vintage bookend that I found at an estate sale today 😊 📚 🦉
pickThe artwork and fast paced plot make this a pick!
..As he gained this terrible sense of his own sin he felt that he could no longer sit in front of god, he had to kneel..It was a near impossible sight of a Triad boss on his knees; In Chinese culture it is the most servile of positions&a gang leader lowered himself to no one!
Once you are a Triad ,your a Triad for life,even Hong Kong law courts accept that triad membership was binding forever.”I give up my right to those who want to follow Jesus”
Loving this book sooo much ,I had a little help from Google as I couldn‘t visualise the walled city,the city of darkness & once the most densely populated place on earth.33,000 people in the space of a football pitch🤯,the conditions were unfathomable&riddled with crime.
14yr old girls in prostitution
“Respectable people thought of the girls as the scum of the earth;but it was only by ✨The Grace of God✨ that I had been born in a different place”
Started reading this book and it is oddly drawing me in and I‘m enjoying it. It‘s a bit different. Anyone read it?
