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The Girl Who Played Go: A Novel by Sa Shan; Adriana Hunter is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Girl Who Played Go: A Novel about?
“Explosive... Poignant and shattering... While [the] climax is inevitable and the stories lead directly toward it, a reader is still shocked and horrified when it occurs.” -The Boston Globe“Shan Sa creates a sense of foreboding that binds the parallel tales of her protagonists. Her measured prose amplifies the isolation amid turmoil that each character seems to inhabit.” – San Francisco Chronicle“Dreamy... powerful... This unlikely love story... is beautiful, shocking, and sad.” – Entertainment Weekly“Compelling... Emotionally charged chapters evoke the stop-and-start rhythms of adolescence... Sa handles the intersection of the personal and the political quite deftly.” – The Washington Post Book World***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 teena
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Sa Shan; Adriana Hunter
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400032280
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Romance, Military Romance
- Rating
- 3.76 / 5 (2,253 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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