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is an interesting first hand story about what it was like to grow up during the cultural revolution with the added complication of not being fully Chinese.
The story itself is intriguing but the way it was written and character development of some of the players and a better explanation woven in abut the political climate and why could be better.
The ending begs a sequel, Great Book

Enthralling work of

literature, The author brings this time period to life, I could not put the book down, I read ot indays, I love this book. well written though plot was a tad loose especially the part where she met uncle fly and part where she goes to HK.
I lost interest in the book, I loved this book abouts Shanghai and Hong Kong, Vivian Yang is an excellent storyteller, Her protagonist in this novel is Mo Mo, who is/Russian, Mo Mo's mother, Nadia or Mo Nadi, is a troubled pianist who all but abandons her daughter during their years in Hong Kong and later in Shanghai.
Mo Mo later finds herself in a tumultuous relationship with her swimming coach, who ends up affecting her adulthood more than she could imagine.
My favorite character is the older Shanghai gentleman she befriends as a young girl, Yang beautifully shows how Shanghai woke up after the Cultural Revolution and regained its stature as China's most glamorous city.
For readers of Shanghai Girl, a new novel from Vivian Yang about a distinctively private Eurasian life amidst the turmoil ofth century Chinese and Russian diasporas, a chapter of which has won a top prize of The WNYC Leonard Lopate Essay Contest.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY's review describes it as "an engaging exploration of a world unknown to most Westerners, Yang navigates Hong Kong and the insular Chinese world of Shanghai with equal ease, convincingly charting the protagonist's life from childhood to adolescence and adulthood.
Readers will find this fascinating novel very enjoyable and readable, "

In Shanghais French Concession in, a young Russian fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution from his homeland falls in love with a local teenager.
She dies giving birth to a girl without his knowledge, and he is expelled from China along with most other Westerners following the Communist takeover in.
The daughter grows up to be a piano instructor and becomes an unwed mother herself in,

Her daughter Mo Mo, whose father remains a mystery to all but her reticent mother, is beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious.
But she is a rare Eurasian in a politically radical and culturally homogenous society, We enter her bleak yet fascinating world cloaked to the West where Eurasian appearances are a doubleedged sword, cherished and fetishized simultaneously.


As the plot of this evocative novel set in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, with snippets of St.
Petersberg, London, and Warsaw twists and turns through the lost glorious days of the old Shanghai, the SinoSoviet ideological split of thes, the Cultural Revolution fromto, the economic reform that ensued in China, the bubble years in thes Japan, and theth century Russian and Chinese immigration, a captivating story of one girls courageous journey of overcoming extraordinary racial and sociopolitical circumstances unfolds

Themes of beauty, identity, race, romantic love, friendship, culture, language, food and cannibalism are vividly fleshed out in this unique tale of a private life heretofore unfamiliar to the West.
Readers are urged to consider how Asian and Western views on eroticism differ,

Memoirs of a Eurasian is a triumphant work of fiction at once exotic yet universal, erotic but romantic, entertaining and enlightening and utterly captivating, seductive, and original.


Editorial s

"This latest novel "Memoirs" from Yang Shanghai Girl is an engaging exploration of a world unknown to most Westerners.
Yang navigates Hong Kong and the insular Chinese world of Shanghai with equal ease, convincingly charting the protagonists life from childhood to adolescence and adulthood.
Readers will find this fascinating novel very enjoyable and readable, " Publishers Weekly

The reader experiencesthcentury China the Cultural Revolution, the industrialization of the coastal regions and the transformation of Hong Kong through the protagonists struggles and triumphs and the novel progresses competently from episode to episode.
This gives Memoirs of a Eurasian a pleasing, consistent tension, . . The novel is structured as an Asian woman recounting her life story to a Westerner, and as such brings to mind Arthur Goldens massively successful Memoirs of a Geisha.
Despite these superficial likenesses, the protagonists of the novels are entirely different, While Geisha gave a delicately crafted look at the exotic, Yang's tale is more relatable, . . and provides a unique perspective on an underexplored era, Kirkus

"Shanghai Girl" is a delicious tale of crosscultural adjustment, personal ambition, and selfdiscovery, peppered with steamy sex, ruthless exploitation, and mysterious murder.
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