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Title	:	Inheritance
Author	:	Lan Samantha Chang
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	August 17th 2005 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. China. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. Asian Literature. Literary Fiction

Inheritance Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

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In 1931, abandoned after their mother's suicide, the young Junan and her sister, Yinan, make a pact never to leave each other. The two girls are inseparable—until Junan enters into an arranged marriage and finds herself falling in love with her soldier husband. When the Japanese invade China, Junan and her husband are separated. Unable to follow him to the wartime capital, Junan makes the fateful decision to send her sister after him. Inheritance traces the echo of betrayal through generations and explores the elusive nature of trust.

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Original Title:	Inheritance
ISBN:	0393327116 (ISBN13: 9780393327113)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Massachusetts Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2005), PEN Open Book Award (2005)

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I did not go in expecting to like this book. I often find immigrant fiction maudlin and stifling in its disappointment with America or its overwhelming optimism toward American culture.So I was very surprised to find myself so captivated by Changs story (non-autobiographical). She writes with clarity, detail and poignancy. She informs the reader of the political climate of China during the war and Communist revolution without being preachy and mostly without taking sides. She sets up no

It was a very engaging novel with interesting plot twists and carefully constructed characters. I felt connected to the characters and the author successfully managed to allow readers to empathise. The author's precise and believable writing brought out China's past impeccably. Her vivid description of the dire situations the Chinese were subjected to made the book a more interesting read as readers are further exposed to exquisite Chinese culture and tradition. This book was definitely a page

Given that the author is the new director of the Iowa Writers Workshop, I was surprised that the story was told from only one perspective, much of it in third person, in strictly chronological order--nothing cutting edge about the style. And it's a familiar formula that follows 3 generations of women & the relationships between mothers & daughters & the women & their men. But it is a very compelling story set mostly in the years leading up to China's Communist Revolution. Once

I'm strangely fascinated with Chinese history, and I generally find family sagas compelling. I had never heard of Lan Samantha Chang, but I'm glad I picked this book on a whim; it didn't disappoint.Set in the backdrop of political unrest and spanning three generations, Inheritance details the struggle between love and hate in a time of turmoil. Chang's characters are beautifully constructed, particularly the author's mother, Junan, who I could relate to entirely too well. Despite the memorable

Meg Storey (Editor, Tin House Books): In preparation for a panel I will moderate at the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, I am reading Lan Samantha Changs first novel, Inheritance. While my reading could be considered homework, its homework that I dont want to put down. The story of Junan and her younger sister, Yinan, opens in pre-revolution, 1930s China, as their mother, who has not borne her husband a son and worries he will take another wife, commits suicide. Changs quiet yet vivid prose

I love Chang's love story amiss impossible circumstances. Although perhaps true to form, I did not like how Junan took her hate and thus her pain to her grave. I love the imagery that Chang gives of how each sister became the other's phantom limb in that though they are no longer connected, they are nevertheless still feel the pain of loss.In order for Chinese women to have their place secure in their men's eyes, they have to give birth to sons or else they will have to share their husbands with

The mother of two sisters, Junan and Yinan, takes her own life. The Chinese woman had become depressed after hearing a rumor that her husband might take a second wife since she had been unable to produce a son. The two sisters draw together, becoming very close in spite of being very different. The beautiful, cool Junan is wed to Li Ang in an arranged marriage, and is surprised when she falls in love with him. During the 1930s when Japan invades China, soldier Li Ang is stationed in a far city.