The China Lover: A Novel by Ian Buruma
Buruma’s plot strays all over the map, and that’s part of the problem with this ambitious book. He seems to have tried to work in every theme he’s every contemplated about Japanese history and identity: the problematic relationship between East and West, the Japanese underworld, anti-Semitism, the role [...]
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The China Lover by Ian Buruma - Review
The Martian General’s Daughter by Theodore Judson - Review
The Martian General’s Daughter by Theodore Judson
Despite the presence of the Red Planet and of martial titles, this is not your standard piece of military sf; its 250-odd pages follow 45 years in the life of General Peter Justice Black and his illegitimate daughter, Justa, as civilization collapses back into a pre-industrial mode, helped along [...]
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