Orville Schell on his novel, My Old Home: A Novel of Exile
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I Was Youg Ong in the in the Eighties?
Soni: I think some people feel it sticking the chinese in the middle there, if they don't speak chinese, is sort of interrupting. So i really wanted to do it add as, you know, some of these expressions in chinese are so wonderful,. ah, they're so, so perfectly balanced in their contrariness. Sometimes then just, and you can't translate them very easily. In fact, sometimes i felt like the dialogue that was supposed to be in chinese rang more true than dialogue that was meant to be in the english of the 19 eighties or mad.
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