Souls commenting on the recently revealed events of past-Leiyin, Three SoulsĮxplores its complicated main character's life and character in detail.
By using the cut-aways to dead-Leiyin and her three Thanks to both the aforementioned characters and setting as well as the enveloping atmosphere, plotting, and the lovely writing, this isn't a book I will soon forget.ĭeceased person looking back on her life is familiar, but Chang reworks Both come to life under the author's skilled pen, and though this is a debut novel, it's a polished, immersive read from the first page. One of the many reasons I loved Three Souls so much is the vibrancy with which Chang imbues both her characters and her setting of pre-WWII civil-war China. It's an exercise in trying live a thousand lives across time, vicariously. I think one of the best things about reading, and reading historical fiction in particular, is the pleasure to view foreign, alien places through different viewpoints and cultural perspectives. Suffused with history and literature, Three Souls is anĮpic tale of revenge and betrayal, forbidden love, and the price we are Leiyin realizes that the time for making amends is shorter than she
And when sheĭiscovers what she must do to be released from limbo into the afterlife,
Marriage, a pregnancy, and, ultimately, her death. Her punishment for disobedience leads to exile, an unwanted To pursue Hanchin, she learns the harsh truth-that she is powerless over She meets Hanchin, a captivating left-wing poet and translator, and While China is fractured by civil war and social upheaval. Teenager she once was, a girl who is concerned with her own desires The three souls to review her life, she sees the spoiled and privileged Her are three souls-stern and scholarly yang impulsive, romantic yin Īnd wise, shining hun-who will guide her toward understanding. Ghost of a young woman named Leiyin, who watches her own funeral fromĪbove and wonders why she is being denied entry to the afterlife. So begins the haunting and captivating tale, set in 1935 China, of the We have three souls, or so I'd been told. An absorbing novel of romance and revolution, loyalty and family, sacrifice and undying love
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