pick10-20 Nov 25 (audiobook)
I may have read this back in my uni days - certainly I remember it being on my mother‘s bedside table, for quite a long time! So when the update came up as a recommended title after finishing Motherland I decided to listen to the original title first.it was long! And not quite as engaging as Motherland, but still an interesting look at the lives of the author, her mother and grandmother, and by extension women, in China.
Yesterday's library haul: Gingerbread Baby, and June Fourth Elegies by Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. I might have picked up this book because I took the author for a Nobel Prize laureate in Literature 😊. It is a collection of poems written over many years, in prison, in labour camp or at home, on the anniversaries of the Tiananmen Square protests. Some are more to my taste than others.
I‘ve been annoyed by the poor editing throughout the book, but this is pretty bad. The climax of a?
