FPS Book Review
Transcript of FPS Book Review
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Author of the Sounds of The River
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This book, Sounds of the River, is about friendships, prejudice, familial love and academic striving, and of one man’s escape from hunger, poverty and ignorance.
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Da Chen leaves his village for University in Beijing to learn English and all other Westernised things. He competes with every other student with family of high status to win a chance to study in the US – a chance that rests in the shrewd and corrupt hands of all-powerful professors.
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Da Chen engages the reader of "Sounds of the River" with his candid and lyrical narration of the human comedy that surrounds this classically comedic tale of a country bumpkin trying to make it in the big city. His story reflect very much on the state of the post-Mao China, and the people’s lives.
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By: Wee Wen ChingPresbyterian High School,
Singapore
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