Instead he finds only punishing labour, harsh cruelty and an existence akin to slavery on a sugarcane plantation.
A weak plot, mixed with totally forgettable characters, makes one take a deep sigh of relief that it's over.moreĪrriving in Guiana, nine-year old Song finds little evidence of the easy fortunes to be made that enticed him to risk his life to travel there.
When I read a book, I expect to be able to pull at least one positive aspect out of it, even if it is a feeble one, but unfortunately in the case of Song, the best aspect of it, was getting to the last page. It's okay though, because Song was out the next day trying to make his fortune! Good ol'Song! The very best part, which made me laugh out loud, was when the reader was supposed to feel pity for Song, but while his Wife was expecting a child, he tootled off and dipped his bread with another woman, but his wife was totally cool with that, it appears. It was exasperating and repetitive, and it turns out, Song never really did anything memorable at all. The writing style was intelligible, but it was terribly monotonous, and the majority of the book read like this Song went on the boat and met a boy there. It is described as a painfully realistic and vividly descriptive, which has me wondering, were we reading from the same pages? What baffles the mind is the seventeen or more positive reviews written about this book. There is a lack of background of Song, and before I knew it, I was being dragged along by my ankle on his puny travels. Song is on a quest for a better life, which begins as soon as I open the book. This is a very simple story of an individual called Song (ironically) and his unbelievably bland life. Get ready, because I've been ready to write this since page twenty. This is a very simple I've taken a moment or two out of my fun-packed evening schedule to write this review for Song, not only because I feel I need to get this review out of my system due to being at breaking point, and also being totally disappointed with myself for purchasing this, and finally, because I feel I have a solid duty to warn fellow readers on just how mind-numbingly boring and poorly written this book actually is. I've taken a moment or two out of my fun-packed evening schedule to write this review for Song, not only because I feel I need to get this review out of my system due to being at breaking point, and also being totally disappointed with myself for purchasing this, and finally, because I feel I have a solid duty to warn fellow readers on just how mind-numbingly boring and poorly written this book actually is. This is a far-reaching and atmospheric story spanning nearly half a century and half the globe, and though it is set in the past, Song's story of emigration and the quest for opportunity is, in many ways, a very contemporary tale.more Song may have survived the perilous journey to the colony of British Guiana in the Caribbean, but once there he discovers riches are hard to come by, as he finds himself working as an indentured plantation worker.īetween places, between peoples, and increasingly aware that circumstances of birth carry more weight than accomplishments or good deeds, Song fears he may live as an outsider forever. Song may have survived the perilous journey to the colony of British Guiana in the Caribbean, but once there he discovers riches are hard to come by, as he finds himself working as an indentured plantation Opening in the mid-nineteenth-century, this dazzling debut novel traces the voyage of Song, a boy who leaves his impoverished family in rural China to seek his fortune. Opening in the mid-nineteenth-century, this dazzling debut novel traces the voyage of Song, a boy who leaves his impoverished family in rural China to seek his fortune.
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