Alex Lomov từ Lumeau, France

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05/18/2024

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2020-01-19 17:31

Thơ Tú Xương Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mạnh Linh

"Truth is stranger than fiction" - I've often heard that phrase. And I found it applies to the story told by Susan Jane Gilman of her trip to China with a university friend Claire, some 23 years after it happened. Trying to figure out what caused the series of events in the book - the two 21-year old girls, or China itself - is not quite easy. Maybe it was the interaction of the two that was the key, or maybe it was that China in the mid-1980s was just a catalyst that would change these two girls in such different and dramatic ways. See the full review posted on my blog, http://www.bookbirddog.blogspot.com ======================================================== But honestly, folks, what would make two young college graduates from a fairly privileged and coddled background decide to go off to a country they know absolutely nothing about? Not about the food, the language, the culture, or even the conditions of living there for local people or for tourist? They are armed only with a Lonely Planet guide, obviously for seasoned travelers, as the guide recommends hotels/hostels that they find appalling and more like unliveable hovels. One of the girls speaks French, the other is into German philosophy. Why for their first trip abroad ever, would they not choose a foreign country where they know something of the culture and can at least speak a few words of the language? Blame it on their Ivy League university, which inculcated into their minds that being the cream of the crop intellectually, they could go out and make their mark on the world - any part of the world. Instead of being moved to poetry and philosophy, however, they find themselves spending all their time being practical - looking for food they can eat, a decent bed to sleep on, and a place "to pee." It would be funny if it weren't so sad.... Would-be travelers to foreign places can read this book and perhaps learn something before they take off, to avoid culture shock in its extreme form.

Người đọc Alex Lomov từ Lumeau, France

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.