Download Under the Hawthorn Tree Free Audio Books

List Books During Under the Hawthorn Tree

Original Title:	Under the Hawthorn Tree ISBN13 9780887842917
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.houseofanansi.com/Under-the-Hawthorn-Tree-P583.aspx

Under the Hawthorn Tree

Ai Mi

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 3.58 | 1632 Users | 211 Reviews

Present Appertaining To Books Under the Hawthorn Tree

Title	:	Under the Hawthorn Tree
Author	:	Ai Mi
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	February 14th 2012 by House of Anansi Press (first published August 2007)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance. Cultural. China

Representaion To Books Under the Hawthorn Tree

Yichang municipality, Hubei province, China, early 1970s. High-school student Jingqiu is one of many educated urban youth sent to the countryside to be "re-educated" under a dictate from Chairman Mao. Jing's father is a political prisoner somewhere in China, and her mother, a former teacher branded as a "capitalist," is now reduced to menial work to support Jing and her two younger siblings.


When Jing arrives with a group at Xiping village in the Yangtze River's Three Gorges region, she meets geology student Jianxin, nicknamed "Old Three," who is the son of a high-ranking military officer, but whose mother committed suicide after being branded a "rightist." Despite their disparate social backgrounds and a political atmosphere that forbids the relationship, Jingqiu and Jianxin fall desperately in love. But their budding romance is cut short by fate...


A sensitive and searing love story, Under the Hawthorn Tree is sure to become an instant classic.

Rating Appertaining To Books Under the Hawthorn Tree

Ratings: 3.58 From 1632 Users | 211 Reviews

Evaluate Appertaining To Books Under the Hawthorn Tree

The ending is too depressing, I couldn't accept , not going to read it again. It affected my moods that I cannot get into conversations with people.I picked it up after seeing the movie and some movie reviewers said the book has more details urging me to read. I read to understand the older generations mindset in my family, it's something I wanted to understand about the cultural revolution -- a simple version. I tried understanding to read about cultural revolution when I was a teenager but

The plot is held together by so many "chance" happenings that it is impossible to suspend so much disbelief. I lost patience with the protagonist's self absorption and thickness and obsession with her purity. Leave it to the Chinese (my heritage is Chinese btw) to have sex but remain a virgin! Naive ness is coy but a whole book on it is just plain being "thick". Populist movements " a classic" do not make. I'm guessing that the most generous reviews aren't by people who know the culture at all

Beautifully written. Such a simple love story. I laughed, I cried, it broke my heart. and I loved every moment of it. It is a translation so dont expect prose and the culture is different so the characters do not act ' western ' but if you can put the two aside its a wonderful read. Beautiful about two people that cannot be together.

Don't waste your time. The writing of this story is bland and very uninteresting; however, I stuck with it for some reason only to find that the last fifty pages or so might as well have been written by a different author about a different main character and, at that point, the entire story fell apart and I wondered why I had wasted my time. Thankfully this was on a library book.

This novel was frustrating. Although it offered some cultural and historical insight regarding China's Cultural Revolution, the story was so linear from cover to cover with each chapter being "ground hog day". The 2 main characters were portrayed as strong, capable and intelligent yet their relationship was immature and naive...resulting in a sappy romance. The ending was entirely predictable and the writing flip-flopped between first and third person. Not sure if the latter was a translation

The ending is too depressing, I couldn't accept , not going to read it again. It affected my moods that I cannot get into conversations with people.I picked it up after seeing the movie and some movie reviewers said the book has more details urging me to read. I read to understand the older generations mindset in my family, it's something I wanted to understand about the cultural revolution -- a simple version. I tried understanding to read about cultural revolution when I was a teenager but

I love this quote from the translator which I feel truly describes the essence of this powerful book, "What is at stake in Under The Hawthorn Tree is innocence, both of the individual and of society at large, in the face of the corrupting influence of extreme politics." This is Jingqiu, a 17 year old girl's personal story of the way those national political struggles during the Cultural Revolution affected her relationships with people. Her "sexual naivety shows the startling intimate reach of