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Xinran takes her readers to the heart of modern Chinese society in this delightful and absorbing tale of three peasant girls getting to grips with life in the big city.
The Li sisters don’t have much education, but one thing has been drummed into them: their mother is a failure because she hasn’t managed to produce a son, and they themselves only merit a number as a name. Women, their father tells them, are like chopsticks: utilitarian and easily broken. Men, on the other hand, are the strong rafters that hold up the roof of a house.
Yet when circumstances lead the sisters to seek work in distant Nanjing, the shocking new urban environment opens their eyes. While Three contributes to the success of a small restaurant, Five and Six learn new talents at a health spa and a bookshop/tearoom. And when the money they earn starts arriving back at the village, their father is forced to recognize that daughters are not so dispensable after all.
As the Li sisters discover Nanjing, so do we: its past, its customs and culture, and its future as a place where people can change their lives.
The Li sisters don’t have much education, but one thing has been drummed into them: their mother is a failure because she hasn’t managed to produce a son, and they themselves only merit a number as a name. Women, their father tells them, are like chopsticks: utilitarian and easily broken. Men, on the other hand, are the strong rafters that hold up the roof of a house.
Yet when circumstances lead the sisters to seek work in distant Nanjing, the shocking new urban environment opens their eyes. While Three contributes to the success of a small restaurant, Five and Six learn new talents at a health spa and a bookshop/tearoom. And when the money they earn starts arriving back at the village, their father is forced to recognize that daughters are not so dispensable after all.
As the Li sisters discover Nanjing, so do we: its past, its customs and culture, and its future as a place where people can change their lives.
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From the author of the bestselling "The Good Women of China" comes the uplifting story of three sisters who, like so many migrant workers in today's China, leave their peasant community to seek their fortune in the big city. The Li sisters don't have much education, but one thing has been drummed into them: their mother is a failure because she hasn't managed to produce a son, and they themselves only merit a number as a name.Women, their father tells them, are like chopsticks: utilitarian and easily broken. Men, on the other hand, are the strong rafters that hold up the roof of a house. Yet when circumstances lead the sisters to seek work in distant Nanjing, the shocking new urban environment opens their eyes. While Three contributes to the success of a small fast-food restaurant, Five and Six learn new talents at a health spa and a bookshop/tearoom. And when the money they earn starts arriving back at the village, their father is forced to recognise that daughters are not so dispensable after all. Xinran has become known for her wonderful ability to take readers to the heart of Chinese society. In this new book she tells not only a human story, but the story of a city.As the Li sisters discover Nanjing, so do we: its past, its customs and culture, and its future as a place where people can change their lives.
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Eine unterhaltsame, interessante und z.T. amüsante Erzählung. Man fühlt richtig mit, wenn die drei Landeier ins Großstadtleben hineinschnuppern.
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Too much fiction, too little fact
25. Januar 2008
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I am definitely a fan of Xinran's writing. I was hooked with The Good Women of China and also found Sky Burial to be beautifully written. I was so excited for this book as I live in China and have worked with migrant workers in the past. I was very disappointed with Miss Chopsticks as I feel that the author could have done a bit more research into the lives of her subjects.
Having worked with migrant workers in China for 2 years, the stories portrayed by sisters Three, Five and Six are hardly the reality for migrant worker women in today's China. The reality that I see are harsh living conditions, 12-15 hour work days with no career ladder, very limited days off, and owners and managers who treat there pets and fancy cars better than their workers. The three sisters in the book seem to be living and working in their dream jobs in a dream world. It was very difficult to swallow when what I see in everyday life is completely opposite.
I wish Xinran would have included more fact into her work of fiction and depicted the persecution and discrimination that today's migrant woman faces. It's those life experiences that really makes these chopsticks, roof beams.
Having worked with migrant workers in China for 2 years, the stories portrayed by sisters Three, Five and Six are hardly the reality for migrant worker women in today's China. The reality that I see are harsh living conditions, 12-15 hour work days with no career ladder, very limited days off, and owners and managers who treat there pets and fancy cars better than their workers. The three sisters in the book seem to be living and working in their dream jobs in a dream world. It was very difficult to swallow when what I see in everyday life is completely opposite.
I wish Xinran would have included more fact into her work of fiction and depicted the persecution and discrimination that today's migrant woman faces. It's those life experiences that really makes these chopsticks, roof beams.
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'A handful of chopsticks and no roofbeam'
28. November 2007
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I read this novel in one sitting last night: I could not put it down. Xinran has written a delightful novel about three sisters from rural China who make their own lives in Nanjing.
Sisters Three, Five and Six may not have much formal education, but they know that their mother is a failure because she has produced only six daughters (chopsticks) and no son (roofbeam). Chopsticks (girls) are seen as less valued than roofbeams (sons) for a number of different traditional cultural reasons, and a family without sons has far less face (standing).
Sisters Three, Five and Six have different skills and aptitudes and each is able to find a valuable niche in the city, acquire new knowledge and to bring face to their family. Each sister makes a new and different life in Nanjing, and each is valued. They each learn as well that not all learning is without some pain or grief.
But the ultimate message is one of hope for a different future. In the words of their father:'Is it possible that our chopstick girls will be able to hold up the roof'?
This novel has been translated beautifully into English by Esther Tyldesley.
Highly recommended.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
Sisters Three, Five and Six may not have much formal education, but they know that their mother is a failure because she has produced only six daughters (chopsticks) and no son (roofbeam). Chopsticks (girls) are seen as less valued than roofbeams (sons) for a number of different traditional cultural reasons, and a family without sons has far less face (standing).
Sisters Three, Five and Six have different skills and aptitudes and each is able to find a valuable niche in the city, acquire new knowledge and to bring face to their family. Each sister makes a new and different life in Nanjing, and each is valued. They each learn as well that not all learning is without some pain or grief.
But the ultimate message is one of hope for a different future. In the words of their father:'Is it possible that our chopstick girls will be able to hold up the roof'?
This novel has been translated beautifully into English by Esther Tyldesley.
Highly recommended.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
1 von 1 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
An eye-opener for a bignose
8. Juli 2010
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Xinran's charming story of three sisters is peppered with folk sayings and maternal cautions. Even though "the first pig to get fat is the first one to find itself on the table," the third-born daughter of the Li family (called Three) decides to leave the village and try her fortune in the big city. Anything rather than marry the unappealing husband her parents have chosen for her.
Three's father is so unhappy about having six daughters and no sons that they are named simply after their birth order. Girls, after all, are mere chopsticks, whereas boys are roofbeams. Without a son Li Zhongguo has no one to hold up his house.
Through the kindness of city people (like the Tofu Lady), Three finds a job quickly. She does so well working at The Happy Fool restaurant that two of her sisters (Five and Six) follow her to Nanjing.
Five is illiterate and considered the ugliest and stupidest girl in the village. Six is a bookworm, the only girl in the village to have finished middle school. The experiences of Three, Five and Six in their rather unusual jobs make lively reading. The sisters are beautifully portrayed, and there are lots of other delightful characters besides.
This novel gives a fascinating picture of the new entrepreneurial China, as seen through the eyes of naive country girls who have never used porcelain toilets, ridden in a car or encountered a bignose (Caucasian) in person.
Even though the plot goes a bit flat at the end, all in all I found the book as fresh and piquant as the vegetables in The Happy Fool restaurant.
Three's father is so unhappy about having six daughters and no sons that they are named simply after their birth order. Girls, after all, are mere chopsticks, whereas boys are roofbeams. Without a son Li Zhongguo has no one to hold up his house.
Through the kindness of city people (like the Tofu Lady), Three finds a job quickly. She does so well working at The Happy Fool restaurant that two of her sisters (Five and Six) follow her to Nanjing.
Five is illiterate and considered the ugliest and stupidest girl in the village. Six is a bookworm, the only girl in the village to have finished middle school. The experiences of Three, Five and Six in their rather unusual jobs make lively reading. The sisters are beautifully portrayed, and there are lots of other delightful characters besides.
This novel gives a fascinating picture of the new entrepreneurial China, as seen through the eyes of naive country girls who have never used porcelain toilets, ridden in a car or encountered a bignose (Caucasian) in person.
Even though the plot goes a bit flat at the end, all in all I found the book as fresh and piquant as the vegetables in The Happy Fool restaurant.
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