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...Jiang's attempts to marshal modern history to conform to his ideas result in some passages that will strike many readers as far-fetched, if not downright silly. They also prevent a simple enjoyment of the book - its pleasant pastoral passages are sooner or later interrupted by jarring expositions that wouldn't look out of place in a 19th century manual of eugenics. Here's one from the novel's main character, Chen Zhen...
...Soviet states such as Georgia and Ukraine. But at a time of increasing Taliban activity in southern Afghan provinces such as Uruzgan, and a growing fatigue on the part of those nations that have troops in the area (and which are suffering a higher proportion of casualties as a result), it is the war in Afghanistan that puts NATO's challenges most sharply into perspective...
...reduced 40% in the U.K., 15% in Germany and 7% in France. Only seven out of NATO's 26 members meet the alliance benchmark of spending 2% of their GDP on defense - compared to 3.8% in the U.S. - and in most cases, those percentages are falling. The result is sharply diminished capacity, even in those nations that are ready to field troops to fight...
Among those that are not, the result is no serious capability at all. The most recent parliamentary audit of German preparedness, for example, found problems ranging from a lack of spare parts for armored vehicles to uniforms that are insufficiently camouflaged. German soldiers have taken to buying their own gun holsters because the army-issue variety do not fit properly under their bullet-proof vests. German helicopters, according to a source at the International Security Assistance Force (NATO's military arm in Afghanistan), can't fly at night because they do not have the required navigation equipment. "They are fundamentally...
...than 3 million copies in the U.K. alone, De Bernières in A Partisan's Daughter departs from what he describes as his usual "complicated, Latinate" writing style. He allows Roza and Chris to alternate in telling their stories, using their own raw and candid language. As a result, the novel reads like a memoir, which is fitting since De Bernières says Roza is the literary incarnation of a Serbian housemate he lived with in the late '70s. "When I left that house I heard her voice going through my mind for months," he recalls...