The girl who played go

Shan Sa

Original title: La Joueuse de go

earliest edition we have, 2002 Ming bao chu ban she you xian gong si, 2002 286 pages

Ming yue wen ku

In a remote Manchurian town in the 1930s, a sixteen-year-old girl is more concerned with intimations of her own womanhood than the escalating hostilities between her countrymen and their Japanese occupiers. While still a schoolgirl in braids, she takes her first lover, a dissident student. The more she understands of adult life, however, the more disdainful she is of its deceptions, and the more she loses herself in...

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The girl who played go edition · 2003 · Chatto & Windus · 280 pages
The girl who played go edition · 2003 · A.A. Knopf · 312 pages
Wei qi shao nü edition · 2003 · Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si · 290 pages
Wei qi shao nü edition · 2002 · Ming bao chu ban she you xian gong si · 286 pages

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