Story Description:
St. Martin’s Press|October 11, 2011|Trade
Paperback|978-0-312-61415-7
Li Jing, a happily married businessman, is dining
at a grand hotel in Shanghai when a gas explosion rips through the
building. A shard of glass pierces Jing’s
forehead, obliterating his ability to speak Chinese. He can form only faltering phrases in the
English he spoke as a child in Virginia, leaving him unable to communicate with
his wife, Meiling or their young son.
Desperate, the family turns to an American neurologist, Rosalyn Neal,
who finds herself as lost as Jing – whom she calls James – in this bewitching
city, where the two form a bond that Meiling does not need a translator to
understand.
With gorgeous prose and a dazzling sense of place,
The Lost and Forgotten Languages of
Shanghai introduces a brilliant storyteller, who shows us the power of language
in both our public and our private relationships.
My Review:
This was an interesting read however I found it to
be a bit too long. The author could have
shortened this story and still got her point across. I felt she went into too much detail and
almost kept repeating the same things over and over only in different
ways. I am glad I read the book, it just
seemed a bit too long and I was thinking when is the end coming, let’s cut the
on and on and get this finished up.
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