

Old Town
Author: Lin Zhe, George A. Fowler
Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller
Unabridged: 22 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 11/27/2012
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Sagas
Author: Lin Zhe, George A. Fowler
Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller
Unabridged: 22 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 11/27/2012
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Sagas
Lin Zhe is the pen name of a noted contemporary Chinese novelist and screenwriter. Altogether Ms. Lin has written fourteen novels, which largely deal with women’s issues. Two Chinese television series have been based on this novel, her first to appear in English.
I liked this book a lot. It's a good old-fashioned multi-generational family saga that takes place in China. It was a huge best seller in China and has been made into an even more popular TV series. It covers the years from the 1930s to the present. Obviously a lot has happened in those years in Chi......more
I thought there was too many gratuitous references to being Christian. It was a turn off for me.......more
If you want to know about 20 and 21 century in China, this is the book. It is 500 pages and takes some research to follow it, but worth every word. Lin Zhe is author name and real name is Zhang Younghong. This is the story of a family in China, beginning with the main character, Ninth Brother, born......more
It took me a looooong time to read this book - months, even. It is unusual for a book to take more than a couple of weeks for me to finish. It took longer than normal for lots of reasons: it's a long book, I'm not familiar with Chinese history and culture, I felt ambivalent about the characters at t......more
I have had friends describe their lives during the Cultural Revolution in China, and was impressed with their indomitable spirit, but I couldn't really understand the rebellion. What was the meaning of "struggle?" While this book is a work of fiction, it put Chinese history into an understandable co......more