Reviews

Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice by Nam Le

annabellw06_'s review

emotional fast-paced

4.0

emilylee__'s review

emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

mingo11's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

2.75

laurenrebecca8's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

samingtonsleft's review

reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

amyho's review

4.0

The ending sucked and felt more like the beginning of a novel instead of the end of a short story. But overall it made me realize Things about my parents' refugee experience.

mims's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

sarahsbookss's review

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

marissajl's review

3.0

3.5

tien's review

4.0

Not only was this story Short with Big title but it also delivers such a Punch! The title says it all, this story is all about Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice . I mean how do you fit all that in 20 pages? But Nam Le has definitely done that. This story portrays what most Asian families would experience, especially those second generation living in the Western world. The struggle with of who we really are; the difficulty in mixing the 2/3 cultures and ideologies. This gap between the Asian parents and their westernised children are sometimes too wide and yet… if you are willing to reach out and compromise, anything is possible.