La Joueuse de Go

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French Novel by Shan Sa, published by Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle in 2001. (ISBN 2 246 61611 5)

The story is set in Manchuria in 1936/37, during the Japanese invasion. The heroes are a Manchu girl and a Japanese officer, who meet over a game of Go. Their game becomes the backdrop for the rest of the story up to the very proper denouement.

Other than this, the Go references are rather thin, to a point where one can wonder how much the writer really knows about Go. If one doesn't expect from this book a deep insight into the Manchurian Go culture, it is very pleasant to read.

The novel has been translated into Dutch and German.

--- Confused

Italian too.
The novel is sort of well written, but is nothing special as originality goes, and do not expect Go to play a significant role but a mean to allow the protagonists to meet. The end is commonplace.
An enjoyable two-hours reading and useless book, if you ask me...

--- DJ

And English (Chatto & Windus, 2003).

--- Grauniad

And Turkish as 'Go Oyuncusu' (Doğan Kitap, 2004)

---Utku


ilan: Here is my review [ext] http://cf.geocities.com/ilanpi/joueuse.html


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