I was very torn on how to rate this book. It certainly isn't for everybody, but I found it very enlightening - I am growing to like it more after I've thought on it. This novel traces the lives of several people affected by WWII, and it takes a while to connect them; it took me a while to stop as...
Shanghai, 1916Yuliang has just drifted to sleep when a splash and a shout jolt her back into awareness – just in time for a near-collision with a Shanghai garbage barge.‘Out of the way, dog-face!’ their sampan’s captain shouts. ‘Your steering stinks as much as your cargo!’ He gestures obscenely, ...