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Set in Japanese-occupied Manchuria in the 1930s, The Girl who Played Go is a haunting tragedy, a shocking tale of love and war reflected in the age-old game of go. In the Square of a Thousand Winds, snow falls as a sixteen-year-old Chinese girl beats all-comers at the game of go. One of her opponents is, unknown to her, a young Japanese officer of the occupying power, rigidly militaristic, imbued with the imperial ethic, but far from home and intrigued by this young opponent. Their encounters are like the game itself, restrained, subtle and surprisingly fierce. But as their two stories unfold the Japanese army moves inexorably through their huge land, in the vanguard of a greater war, leaving blood and destruction in its wake.Taal: Engels;Vertaald uit het: Frans;Afmetingen: 17x198x129 mm;Gewicht: 203,00 gram;Verschijningsdatum: juni 2004;ISBN10: 0099444984;ISBN13: 9780099444985; Engelstalig | Paperback | 2004.

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In a remote Manchurian town in the 1930s, a sixteen-year-old girl is more concerned with intimations of her own womanhood than the escalating hostilities between her countrymen and their Japanese occupiers. While still a schoolgirl in braids, she takes her first lover, a dissident student. The more she understands of adult life, however, the more disdainful she is of its deceptions, and the more she loses herself in her one true passion: the ancient game of go. Incredibly for a teenager–and a girl at that–she dominates the games in her town. No opponent interests her until she is challenged by a stranger, who reveals himself to us as a Japanese soldier in disguise. They begin a game and continue it for days, rarely speaking but deeply moved by each other’s strategies. As the clash of their peoples becomes ever more desperate and inescapable, and as each one’s untold life begins to veer wildly off course, the girl and the soldier are absorbed by only one thing–the progress of their game, each move of which brings them closer to their shocking fate. In The Girl Who Played Go, Shan SA has distilled the piercing emotions of adolescence into an engrossing, austerely beautiful story of love, cruelty and loss of innocence. From the Hardcover edition., Mass Market Paperback, Format: International Edition, Label: Vintage Books, Vintage Books, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2006-09-04, Freigegeben: 2006-09-04, Studio: Vintage Books, Verkaufsrang: 5596410.

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contemporary,education and reference,genre fiction,historical,literary,literature and fiction, In war-torn Manchuria of the 1930s, two lives briefly find peace over a game of go in Shan SA's third novel, The Girl Who Played Go (translated by Adriana Hunter). The unnamed characters, a Japanese soldier stationed in China and a 16-year-old Manchurian girl, narrate their stories in alternating first-person chapters. For the girl, the struggles of Independent Manchuria take a back seat to her discovery of love and the awakening of her sexuality. For the soldier, his idealized dreams of samurai honor and imperial conquest are slowly displaced by homesickness, troubled recollections of his earthquake-torn youth, and remorse over a lost love. But the solitary concerns of each character are eventually submerged by the tides of war. The girl's first lover, Min, is a revolutionary. His ardor for his virgin conquest is matched by a doomed patriotism. Simultaneously, the soldier comes to relish the girl's home town, Thousand Winds, in Southern Manchuria, and becomes distrustful of his own nationalism. His daily games of go with the young female stranger awaken a new passion in him that becomes entwined with admiration for her aggressive play. As they hardly speak, the soldier and the girl's views of each other remain clouded in SA's technically facile narrative maneuvers. Where the soldier sees love, the girls sees escape. By maintaining the first person, SA (winner of the French Prix Goncourt du Premier) leads the reader not only to experience the Japanese and Manchuria.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Brit Books, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes, [RE:5].
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Brit Books, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes, [RE:5].
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9781400040254,1400040256,girl,played,shan, Excellent Marketplace listings for "Girl Who Played Go" by Shan SA starting as low as $1.99! Hardback, Shipping to USA only!

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Girl-Who-Played-Go~~Shan-SA, The Girl Who Played Go, Hardcover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, booklab, VA, Chantilly, [RE:4].
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, More Books, FL, MIAMI, [RE:3].
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