Reading (1)
星期四 十一月 08, 2007 3:15 pm
My friend Doug was asked to write review for Ha Jin’s book “A free Life”By the book vendor. He would like me to make some comments about the scenes around in the book, so I borrowed the book from the local library. I read a few chapters, already I felt attached and hardly let go the sense of pain. The Wus are characters in the book, immigrants to USA and would like their son to become American; I, immigrant, too. Not only I could relate their uncertainty about their future, but also I could feel the longing for self recognition. Especially for Mr. Wu, he seemed to be an ideal dreamer. But he didn’t know what exactly he wanted to be. So the inner unease haunted him.
Just read a few pages, I was already sunk in a sad tone and many worries. Life was not easy there. I thought of my friends there too, we all had lives to live, to strive…