The Girl Who Played Go: A Novel
 

The Girl Who Played Go: A Novel

by Shan Sa

As the Japanese military invades 1930s Manchuria, a young girl approaches her own sexual coming of age. Drawn into a complex triangle with two boys, she distracts herself from the onslaught of adulthood by playing the game of go with strangers in a public square--and yet the force of desire, like the occupation, proves inevitable. Unbeknownst to the girl who plays go, her most worthy and... (read more)

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Liked It

Laila
  • Rated 5 stars

Stunning. So incredibly blunt and mysterious at the same time. Clynically accurate and incredibly poetric - a mystery to me, really.
It's definitely a piece of great skill and amazing imagination. It's a love story, in a way and it's sad and terrible and shocking, but I love it so much.

In a way it appeals to that side in me that feels drawn to the bravery and honour that goes with the lives of soldiers, and at the same time it shows the horrors of war so shockingly and...

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macloo
  • Rated 2 stars

Very disappointing. The characters were two-dimensional. The descriptions of Go lacked excitement and power. The story overall read like a school exercise in plot development. Read Kawabata's "The Master of Go" instead of this.

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  • Rated 4.047619 stars
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  • Rated 4.25 stars
 

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