It could have been a detective novel: you have the clever detective, international settings (London and old Shanghai) and the 1930s. The clever detective is going back to China to try to discover the truth about the long ago disappearance of his parents and he will discover it but then the book ends in a poignant tragedy. This is a classic, beautiful and moving.
(Laurence Martin Euler - bwl 8 April 2001 ) |
