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Lädt ... Spinning Tropics (Vintage Original)von Aska Mochizuki
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Expect spoilers. This is a fun read. I enjoyed it. I think that, like many books, it faltered towards the end and I'm not 100% how it ended. I guess in the main character just realizing that by not being able to completely commit to the affair she has lost her love. I wasn't completely sure about the sexual politics, she had this whole thing about staying a woman and about loving her girlfriend as a woman. Like she was afraid she would become de-sexed, or other-sexed? But her history is more alluded to than drawn and it seems like so much of her story is in her history with her mother (and her mother's mother, etc.) So those are the shadows that hold her back? I thought the book gave an interesting picture of Ho Chi Minh City and life there & life among the expatriate Japanese and Korean people living there. I don't know if I believe it is a complete picture and perhaps there could have been more shading. There might have been too many characters, I had trouble keeping them straight and many were such small characters that they didn't have much to do. That's fine, but when the narrator referred to them later I wasn't quite sure who was who. Another comment is that the book contains some set pieces with great detail but no clear role in the story, plot or character development. (or if there was I missed it.) For example, there is a long description of a lunch that the teachers go to, and who has 3 bowls of rice & who just has 2, and it didn't go anywhere that I could see. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Meet Hiro. She's tall, lanky and awkward--a twenty-something Japanese woman who has decamped to Vietnam from Tokyo to work as a language teacher. Meet Dung. She's shy, beautiful, and tough--a young Vietnamese woman studying Japanese, determined to create a better life for herself and her family. When Dung becomes one of Hiro's students, they are instantly drawn to each other. For both of them, it is their first time in love with another woman. But when Konno, an older Japanese businessman, befriends Hiro, Dung begins to grow unbearably jealous. What unfolds is a love triangle with very complicated, ultimately devastating, results. Set against the backdrop of a Vietnam on the economic rise, debut novelist Aska Mochizuki vividly brings to life the buzz of motorcycles and the tastes of Vietnamese coffee and spicy papaya salads; the confines of the Vietnamese family; the lingering effects of long wars; the rich who ride the economic wave and the poor who are left behind. Spinning Tropics is a lush and evocative story of an intoxicating love affair. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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This is probably a "first book" by this author. It has some promise but it just doesn't keep it. It seems as though it just can't figure out what kind of book it is supposed to be. Part travelogue, part sociological study, part novel but it doesn't successfully fill any of them. The author touches on some potentially weighty topics but never investigates any of them. Too bad. ( )