Rate this book

Year Of The Dog (2008)

by Henry Chang(Favorite Author)

3.17 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1569475156 (ISBN13: 9781569475157)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Soho Crime

series

Detective Jack Yu

review 1: A fascinating portrait of one side of Chinatown. This book was an interesting read but not really my cup of tea. Chang doesn't devote enough time/pages to his main character, in my opinion; there's too much jumping around from character to character. "Year of the Dog" is also quite violent, although the most hard-to-take descriptions are of the aftermath of violence rather than the acts themselves.
review 2: As mentioned in an earlier review,I too would have preferred knowing at the outset the year of the story. The story proceeded in several parts and intersected at the end. There was a lot of reacting, surmising, reflection, and observing. The story telling was uncoventional, or at least unexpected, and I liked it. One nit. The detective carried a rev... moreolver and I think it was common practice at the time to carry automatics (I know, Lenny on "Law and Order" carried a snub-nosed .38.). less

Download links for: Year of the Dog

Advertising