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Jan 22, 2018AlwaysGrateful rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Read this book twice and LOVE it. The second reading was very worthwhile and I appreciated it even more than the first time, partly because I could keep the characters and history in my mind. Beautiful writing style. Extremely interesting to read about life in China from the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. So Tiananmen Square was much more than what happened in the Square itself. Fascinating to read about all the classical music, and noteworthy that Madeleine Thien comes back to classical music and mathematics in both this book and Certainty. Great descriptions of aptitude for math because of "a good memory and love of poetry". Another interesting comment about infinity, as in Certainty.