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Story spans over several decades in Chinese turbolentne history, which has dramatically changed lives of individuals and these political decisions forced people into immorality and silence. We follow history of the two generations of family who finds their freedom of speech in music and written word. The story is layered, dense and with the almost poetic prose, which is in contrast with the brutal content, but the final result is magnificent.

Part of the re-education in Communist countries, self-criticism and informing family members.

New morning with a new book for the #biblioweekend

#favinaugust is North Water. The book is a perfect combination of brutality / violence / atrocity with great descriptive prose and characters that are all evil and I love it. The basic story (Whaling) develops on the several levels with a common point - survival.

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Pile of "real" books and ebooks from longlist for #ManBooker2016

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This book is a sequel to The Childhood of the Jesus (but I think it could also be read as a standalone) and it's, as the previous, the philosophical/allegorical work that deals with the idea of morality through passion. I didn't understand all the symbolism/references and so I don't know if it's okay to rate the book. I don't understand where author leads us with this morality tale/story ...maybe it will be more clear in the third part. But I ...