Helpful Score: 9
Someone in one of my book clubs chose this book to read. I read the little blurb for it and wasn't looking forward to reading it. It just didn't sound that interesting to me. Boy, was I dead wrong. Just wrong.
This was one of the better books I've read lately. I was horrified, fascinated, happy, sad and terrified all at the same time. I didn't know much about this era of China before reading this book and I was intrigued by many things in here, I even had to spend some time at Wikipedia looking stuff up.
The core of the story is about a friendship, but for me it went way beyond that, yes there was the footbinding (literally reading this made my own feet ache with horror), but there's also the marriage practices, the "place" the women have in their home, nu shu, etc etc...
Read it. It was really very good - a surprisingly good read for me this year!
This was one of the better books I've read lately. I was horrified, fascinated, happy, sad and terrified all at the same time. I didn't know much about this era of China before reading this book and I was intrigued by many things in here, I even had to spend some time at Wikipedia looking stuff up.
The core of the story is about a friendship, but for me it went way beyond that, yes there was the footbinding (literally reading this made my own feet ache with horror), but there's also the marriage practices, the "place" the women have in their home, nu shu, etc etc...
Read it. It was really very good - a surprisingly good read for me this year!
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