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Miranda Graham, a clothing designer and the widowed mother of two teenagers, is sent by her company to China to meet with officials at the factory manufacturing her designs. On her arrival, overwhelmed by the foreignness of China for which she was unprepared, she meets Yuan Li, a builder, the son of a Chinese mother and an American soldier, and himself a widowed father. Li helps her, giving her an introduction to China and helping her to get her bearings. What at first is a friendship based on mutual curiosity soon blossoms into a passionate love affair that bridges the cultural divide between them. Li and Miranda spend all of their spare time alone together, lost in their love. Soon, however, the political and cultural realities intrude upon their idyllic relationship, and Miranda and Li must face the future and a relationship made impossible by everything but love.… (plus d'informations)
I would have rated this book a full star higher before I read the last page. What a stupid, stupid ending. A fashion designer from Boulder, Colorado, who has never really traveled much before, Miranda goes to China to meet with suppliers. She is immediately overwhelmed by the crowds at the airport and is 'rescued' by Yuan Li, the owner of a local construction company. Through the course of her trip, he shows her around the city, teaches her how to use chopsticks, and confronts her prejudices about his country, educating her about the place she's visiting. (She comes off as both naive and kinda racist in the beginning of the book). Also, they fall in love. Will he move to America to be with her? Will she stay in China? SPOILER: OR they could come to the rather obvious conclusion that neither of them have the kind of job where they have to live in one place year round and they can just spend half the year in each country, which would be a great experience for Miranda's kids, but instead she just gets on a plane and leaves and they agree never to see each other again because neither of them is willing to move, which is seriously the stupidest thing I've ever heard. ( )
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Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me-- The Carriage held but just Ourselves-- And Immortality. --Emily Dickinson, "Time and Eternity"
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Miranda Graham and Yuan Li met in the Beijing airport when he appeared out of nowhere to rescue her from the shoving, elbowing crowds buffeting her on all sides.
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"Miss, you must get on," urged the attendant, and Miranda walked into the dark passage that led to the plane, and when they rose from the ground and banked to turn toward the ocean, and America, she did not look at the city falling away beneath her; she closed her eyes and saw Li's face, his eyes on hers, telling her he loved her, and his smile.
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Miranda Graham, a clothing designer and the widowed mother of two teenagers, is sent by her company to China to meet with officials at the factory manufacturing her designs. On her arrival, overwhelmed by the foreignness of China for which she was unprepared, she meets Yuan Li, a builder, the son of a Chinese mother and an American soldier, and himself a widowed father. Li helps her, giving her an introduction to China and helping her to get her bearings. What at first is a friendship based on mutual curiosity soon blossoms into a passionate love affair that bridges the cultural divide between them. Li and Miranda spend all of their spare time alone together, lost in their love. Soon, however, the political and cultural realities intrude upon their idyllic relationship, and Miranda and Li must face the future and a relationship made impossible by everything but love.
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A fashion designer from Boulder, Colorado, who has never really traveled much before, Miranda goes to China to meet with suppliers. She is immediately overwhelmed by the crowds at the airport and is 'rescued' by Yuan Li, the owner of a local construction company. Through the course of her trip, he shows her around the city, teaches her how to use chopsticks, and confronts her prejudices about his country, educating her about the place she's visiting. (She comes off as both naive and kinda racist in the beginning of the book). Also, they fall in love. Will he move to America to be with her? Will she stay in China?
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