My attempt at the 2009 100+ Reading Challenge starts here.
Fate has brought you to this sketchbook - a slice of life behind the eyes of a seventeen-year-old Filipina residing in sunny England.
Title: The Good Women of China
Author: Xinran
Rating: 5/5
Book 15 of 100: (The 100+ Reading Challenge)
Synopsis:
For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a nightly radio programme in China called Words on the Night Breeze, during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves.
This unforgettable book is the story of how Xinran reached out to women across the country, despite the restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists. She reveals stories of inconceivable suffering; forced marriages, sexual abuse, repression…Yet above all her stories reveal how love survives; that despite cruelty, despite politics, the female urge to nurture and cherish remains. This is a unique, painfully moving but redemptive book; a window revealing the lives of Chinese women to the West as never before.
