The Girl Who Played Go

[Dyno247365]

Alright time to see who's really literate. This is an amazing book by a chinese author Shan Sa, and it was a requirement for my international lit class. The story is about a japanese soldier who meets a younger chinese girl during the war, and he can't let her know his identity but they communicate with eachother by playing the game of Go, a 5,000 year old board game. The great thing about the book is that every other chapter switched to the first person view of the soldier or the chinese girl, So you learn everything about these two from start to finish, and when they start to get closer, you can see that happen from both sides. I think it's truly amazing, even though the ending sucks but that's chinese literature, the point is that the read is worth it.

Does anyone else know of other books written in this way? 2 point of views?

[turtlecrxsi]

I've read a few books that were in multiple points of view. I can't think of them right now though. It's definitely a contemporary lit practice.

I can tell you that all of Robin Cook's novels are in the 3rd person omniscient pov and all of Bret Easton Ellis' novels are written in the present tense. Things like that really seem to stand out.