Les images sublimes de cette bande dessinée complétées du texte racontent une histoire à la fois tragique et touchante prenant place dans le contexte des Guerres de l'Opium. Bien blottie dans une douce couverture lors d'une journée maussade était l'ambiance réconfortante parfaite pour la lecture de cet ouvrage.
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”
Waste Tide is set in the near future in a Chinese island where waste is dumped and sorted by poor & despised workers brought from the mainland's countryside. Native islanders are better off, but pollution is horrendous for all. 3 local family clans - or mafias if you want to be blunt - unofficially rule the place. 100 pages in and I love it!
Photo by Jonathan McIntosh, via Wikimedia Commons, taken from the waste picker Wikipedia page
#SF #China
so-soThis debut is a hard one for me to rate. Centering around the seemingly perfect, wealthy Shanghai Lang family of 5 (parents Leo and Eko; daughters Yumi, Yoko and Kiko) and the high and low points in their lives (both personally and as a group). The story is told in a regressive timeline (2040-2014) and includes snippets from each family member‘s life. It‘s a story about marriage, about parenting, about siblings and about those people who come 🔻
“Everyone knows that the human body is a miniature version of the universe—the eyes and ears are the sun and moon, breath is air, blood is rain.”
#Secret
#SpringSkies
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickI was SO excited to get my hands on a new book by Yangsze Choo, since I loved THE NIGHT TIGER. In THE FOX WIFE, Choo draws on the Chinese mythology of foxes to tell a compelling, lyrical story of Snow, a fox in a revenge mission, and Bao, an investigator of mysterious deaths that may be the work of a fox. With an evocative atmosphere and complex characters but deliberate pacing, this is a book to sit down with in long stretches and get lost in.
Started reading this book and it is oddly drawing me in and I‘m enjoying it. It‘s a bit different. Anyone read it?
pick3.8/5 🌟
This poignant novel delves into the life of a boy whose world is shattered when his mother disappears, leaving him to be adopted by a white family and navigate a new identity. As he grapples with the trauma of his past and struggles to find his place in the world, the story offers a heartbreaking exploration of loss, identity, belonging, and much more. A worthy read indeed.
so-soRead this for book club… important read, but felt like it wasn‘t interesting enough for such heavy topics.
pickBook club read. Based on a real woman from 1500s China. A doctor, wife, and mother. Lady Tan kept a diary of her patients and treatments which See used to create this fictional story. This novel is female-centric—Tan‘s grandmother was a physician and passed the knowledge on to her. Shocking how male doctors were to preserve their female patients‘ modesty at all costs—“examining” them behind a screen and communicating only with her male chaperone.
