![]() ![]() The worse: it is not really science fiction the scifi elements are too few, too low-key, lame/uninteresting and actually just there to offer the pretext for the background. The rhythm, already quite slow, does not keep up constantly. Some are totally useless, go nowhere and should have been cut out (the Angel and San Xiang chapters). The bad: the use of way too many first-person points of view is unusual in a tiresome and unnecessary way. The writing is excellent, realistic but fluid. ![]() Some characters are well drawn and the reader gets to genuinely care about them. ![]() The (very) good: it perfectly and subtly depicts the way life is in a half-hearted tired communist state, with the mixture of fear/constant threat/guilt for being slightly different and apparent normalcy that can hardly be understood by those not living through it it also catches the atmosphere of gloom and its effects (depression, suicide) and the constant desperation to do something to hide that from one's own mind. ![]()
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