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The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China
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David Eimer
Christopher B
, October 30, 2014
Well-written, engaging, this is so much more than a travelogue. David Eimer gives us a glimpse of the China that so many never see. There is so much more to China than the Han culture of Beijing and Shanghai. There are 55 officially recognized minorities in China and how much do we know even about any of them, even those that are regularly mentioned in the news, like the Tibetans and Uighurs. As Eimer travels through Xinjiang, Tibet, Yunnan province, as well as Myanmar and Laos, he explores the histories of these minorities and their contemporary relationships to the Han Chinese and the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.
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Lowland
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Jhumpa Lahiri
Christopher B
, May 04, 2014
Jhumpa Lahiri's book has bursts of great writing, of well chosen words, intriguing prose. And was I surprised by the Indian history Lahiri ties into the novel; I knew nothing about the Naxalite rebellions and terrorism which occurred in India in the late 60s. Her narrative kept my interest, though I found much of the prose and the narrative to be basic (And then, and then, and then...) I did not want to give up on the book, but at the same time, while reading this novel I found so many of the characters irrationally self-centered. Their actions didn't always seem reasonable to me. But maybe that's what makes a great novel - stories about people who stop being rational, actions that seem almost incomprehensible. We are not the rational agents we'd like to believe we are and this is why stories like this can still seem real. Lahiri is able to untie all the pain in the novel not so that the events become any less painful, but so that these unfortunate events do not carry any further. The novel is worth reading, but I felt like it could have been more.
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