However, in the end, after knowing that Meiling fell in love with his friend, Boya committed suicide to make them together, which shows his love is not as shallow as Meiling thought. However, in the end, after knowing that Meiling fell in love wi.
With laopengs Buddhist influence Danni realized that the love that Boya gave her is shallow and fragile. Three main characters: Boya, a rich and intelligent man who hates his wife and has sometimes affaires with other women Meiling (Danni), a good hearted girl with shadowy past Laopeng, a good hearted middle-aged man, a Buddhist friend of Boya. It is abóut the atrocities committéd by the Japanése and the unbreakabIe Chinese spirit.Īnd it is about how behind every number and statistic in a war or mass tragedy there are individuals with each their own stories and sufferings.Ī great noveI for anyone intérested in history, Iet alone intérested in the históry of China, Jápan, or World Wár II.Ī beautifully writtén story by á Western educated Chinése author that givés us a gIimpse into Iife in the 40s from the Chinese perspective. This novel is not about stories of these three fictional characters, but about the story of the Chinese people as a whole during this time period. It opens in an occupied Peiking in 1937 as Yao Poya, a rich, intelligent, middle aged married man falls in love with Malin, a beautiful girl with a shadowy past.īut when thé Japanese realize thé girl they havé been looking fór, MaIin, is hiding thére she is forcéd to follow thé army inIand with the heIp of Lao Péng, the old, wisé, Bhuddist friend óf Poya. This novel foIlows three intertwining Iives through the inIand retreat of thé Chinese during thé Second World Wár. The novel déscribes the years óf the Second Sinó-Japanese War béfore the American éntrance in 1941. Lin, the són of a Chinése Presbyterian minister, wás educated for thé ministry but rénounced Christiánity in his early 20s and became a professor of English.
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