Slough Libraries and Culture volunteer Sahra has reviewed these riveting adult fiction books!
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
This book transported me through time and space. Evoking every emotion possible. Min Jin Lee is an incredible author that has me hooked! I can't wait to read more of her books in the future.
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Yeongdo, Korea 1911: A club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old beauty. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then a Christian minister offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends and no home, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story.
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Sayuri, is a geisha in the early 19th century Japan. This book tells you of her story, her trials and tribulations. Be ready to step in to this world of colours, beauty and intrigue.
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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a hotel in New York, opening a window into an extraordinary half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation and summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history.Do not say we have nothing by Madeline Thien
Shocking and moving, Madeline Thien takes you on an emotional roller coaster. Despite the tragedy their are moments of beauty. There is resilience and heroism that makes you fall in love with the Chinese people.
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Do not say we have nothing by Madeline Thien
In Canada in 1990, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home. She is Ai-Ming, a young woman from China who has fled following the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square incident. As her relationship with Marie deepens she tells the story of her family in revolutionary China.