No Name Woman

An interesting look into the another culture.  It somewhat reminded me of some of the stories that I heard from some of my family members.  My father side of the family emmigrated from Yugoslavia when he was about 10 years old.  His older sister, my Aunt Rita, told me some stories that happened in her town during World War II.  She told me of how people went after those who sympathized with the Germans after they had fled.  She didn’t say much about it and I rarely ever heard my father say anything about it unless promted by one of us kids.  My grandmother never learned english so I never really had normal conversation with her about it either.  Hmmm, maybe they were hiding something?

Even though we still occassionaly hear about these types of things like honor killings, I don’t think the average American things about how brutal it was in the past.  I suppose that’s normal though and not just an American trait. 

Her writing style took some getting used to.  It seems to have been written by someone who didn’t have english as a first language.  It seemed fast paced, somethimes abrupt, and very to the point at times.  That was just my impression.  Perhaps I just felt that way because I knew the narrator was Chinese?