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 haven‘t read anything by this author, but her books look amazing. So I bought these so far, of course, back when I was in Arizona last.
burnished leaves of red
and gold flutter softly to
earth — winter‘s coming. 🍂
#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #fall #autumn #leaves
so-so3.5⭐️ Felt that some sections were way too long and could have been easily made into another chapter; wish that there was a character list that I could refer to as I wasn‘t too sure of all the relationships that the characters had with each other. I can see why it was shortlisted for the #bookerprize & won the #gillerprize and the #governorgeneral in 2016
#2025 #fiction #china #historicalfiction #bookclub
