Such a sweet innocent book in the style of a Chinese Romeo & Juliet. I enjoyed the naiveté of the lead character and all her internal chatter as she was trying to figure out men in general and her one love in particular! A book set in Chairman Mao's time with nervousness of times discussed, but ...
It was overall a good plot but dragged on for too too long. It was interesting to see how traditional and backwards-thinking China was then. For example, how it was deemed improper by the society that a girl is to have any sort of interaction with boys/men. The protagonist Jingqiu was extremely s...
Una historia muy bien contada, simple, pero agradable. Jing Qui una jovencita con una inocencia increíble, conoce al hombre de su vida y se entrega a él, a su forma de verlo. Él descubre que tiene una enfermedad terminal y lo menos que quiere, es hacerle daño, su amor es más grande que sus deseos...
Perhaps one of the most romantic novels I have ever read, Ai Mi's Under the Hawthorn Tree gave me a strong story of what I always imagined true love to be, if such a thing existed. I'm not a big reader on romance novels and that goes part and parcel with my disbelief of a supposed feeling of love...
![[Hawthorn Tree Forever] (2010) by Ai Mi](/i/cover.jpg)
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