The Phone Box at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina
“We are still parents even when our children are no longer here,”
“We are still parents even when our children are no longer here,”
“As a former practitioner of judo, he would know to be afraid of the sword,”
By Jung Chang and Jon Halliday.
“Even an ordinary guy like me sometimes can think everything is pointless. Why do I wake up in the morning and eat? It all ends up shit in the end. Why do I go to school and study? Even in the unlikely chance I end up successful in the future, I’m still going to die.”
This book is fascinating because it talks about the 1934 Long March, in which 200,000 Communist soldiers walked 8,000 miles after being forced out of their base by Chiang Kaishek.
A book about Shanghai. If you hadn’t guessed.
Yet another book review (MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.)