by Shan Sa · Folio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070424191
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«La Joueuse de go» is the historical novel by Shan Sa, published by Folio in paperback (326 pages, in French).
In 1931, in Manchuria occupied by the Japanese army, a sixteen-year-old girl stands out in the Square of a Thousand Winds for her skill at go. Her next opponent is a Japanese officer barely older than she, devoted to the imperialist ideal. They face each other in silence, without a gesture, while the aristocracy flees the war and China crumbles.
Originally written in French, the novel won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2001 and the Kiriyama Prize 2004.
For readers of historical fiction and love-and-war stories set during the Japanese occupation of China.
Shan Sa is the pseudonym of Yan Ni, a French author and painter. The Girl Who Played Go was the first of her novels to be published outside France, and won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. Her second novel to appear in English translation was Empress (2006). She was awarded chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in July 2009 and chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite in May 2011.
