Paperback, 397 pages
chinese language
Published by 中信出版社.
每一次振翅与喷火，都是她挣脱枷锁的怒吼
【编辑推荐】 1955年4月25日，642987名女性化身巨龙——设定大胆：“女人化龙”，魔幻现实主义设定，隐喻女性追求自由的极致想象。 父亲的缺位，母亲的早亡，化龙事件改变了小女孩的一生。 世人以为沉默能够平息愤怒的烈焰，殊不知那烈焰早已在沉默中燎原。政府的否认、媒体的封锁和大众的遗忘，社会因为羞耻对此事只字不提。这个禁忌的话题下究竟还藏着多少秘密？ 女性化龙自古有之？书中《化龙简史》揭开被历史尘封的女性面纱。 真正的觉醒不是颠覆现有的社会规则，而是如水般柔和地与社会融为一体，成为浪潮。
【内容简介】 1955年4月25日，642 987名女性化身巨龙，身后只留下火焰般的废墟、家暴丈夫的残骸，以及猥亵者的灰烬。 这是史上规模最大的群体性化龙事件。然而，社会却因为羞耻而陷入沉默，政府的否认、媒体的封锁和大众的遗忘共同编织了一张忽视真相的网。人们装作一切如常，假装无事发生。 大规模化龙日那天，亚历克斯年仅8岁，她不明白为什么姨母化龙飞走了，而母亲却没有；她不明白表妹为什么成了亲妹。这个禁忌的话题里究竟还藏着多少秘密?
每一次振翅与喷火，都是她挣脱枷锁的怒吼
【编辑推荐】 1955年4月25日，642987名女性化身巨龙——设定大胆：“女人化龙”，魔幻现实主义设定，隐喻女性追求自由的极致想象。 父亲的缺位，母亲的早亡，化龙事件改变了小女孩的一生。 世人以为沉默能够平息愤怒的烈焰，殊不知那烈焰早已在沉默中燎原。政府的否认、媒体的封锁和大众的遗忘，社会因为羞耻对此事只字不提。这个禁忌的话题下究竟还藏着多少秘密？ 女性化龙自古有之？书中《化龙简史》揭开被历史尘封的女性面纱。 真正的觉醒不是颠覆现有的社会规则，而是如水般柔和地与社会融为一体，成为浪潮。
【内容简介】 1955年4月25日，642 987名女性化身巨龙，身后只留下火焰般的废墟、家暴丈夫的残骸，以及猥亵者的灰烬。 这是史上规模最大的群体性化龙事件。然而，社会却因为羞耻而陷入沉默，政府的否认、媒体的封锁和大众的遗忘共同编织了一张忽视真相的网。人们装作一切如常，假装无事发生。 大规模化龙日那天，亚历克斯年仅8岁，她不明白为什么姨母化龙飞走了，而母亲却没有；她不明白表妹为什么成了亲妹。这个禁忌的话题里究竟还藏着多少秘密?
What a delight in dreaming and the joy of who can offer us support. Very glad I purposefully picked with one up (to expand my interest in dragons ;) )
What a delight in dreaming and the joy of who can offer us support. Very glad I purposefully picked with one up (to expand my interest in dragons ;) )
I wanted to love it. I enjoyed the bits and pieces of female rage. But when I got to the plot climax - an unsurprising, hard-to-believe, and disgusting bit of male abandonment - and realized I still had fully half the book to go, I gave up.
We get it. Men are terrible. The patriarchy is terrible. Homemaking is hard, caring for a sibling is hard, doing it all on your own while the patriarchy actively tries to thwart you is hard. I became exhausted reading it. I've got a threshold for how much worse-and-worse a book can get before it gets better, and this book surpassed it and then some.
I wanted to love it. I enjoyed the bits and pieces of female rage. But when I got to the plot climax - an unsurprising, hard-to-believe, and disgusting bit of male abandonment - and realized I still had fully half the book to go, I gave up.
We get it. Men are terrible. The patriarchy is terrible. Homemaking is hard, caring for a sibling is hard, doing it all on your own while the patriarchy actively tries to thwart you is hard. I became exhausted reading it. I've got a threshold for how much worse-and-worse a book can get before it gets better, and this book surpassed it and then some.
DNF. I was told women would be dragons. Women were... mostly oppressed and silenced. Relentlessly depressing when I thought it would be galvanizing.
L'histoire d'une adolescente blanche dans les années 50, dans des États-Unis marqués par la transformation soudaine de plus de 600.000 femmes en dragons. Un récit plein de rage et de frustrations, d'émotions et de vie, sur le poids des non-dits, des silences imposés et d'une discipline intériorisée. Mais c'est aussi une histoire d'affirmation et, à terme, de libération. Un livre au concept un peu déroutant de prime à bord (ces transformations en dragons dans le décor terriblement figé et oppressif de l'Amérique des années 50) mais qui se révèle tellement attachant, et se lit d'une traite et accompagne durablement.
L'histoire d'une adolescente blanche dans les années 50, dans des États-Unis marqués par la transformation soudaine de plus de 600.000 femmes en dragons. Un récit plein de rage et de frustrations, d'émotions et de vie, sur le poids des non-dits, des silences imposés et d'une discipline intériorisée. Mais c'est aussi une histoire d'affirmation et, à terme, de libération. Un livre au concept un peu déroutant de prime à bord (ces transformations en dragons dans le décor terriblement figé et oppressif de l'Amérique des années 50) mais qui se révèle tellement attachant, et se lit d'une traite et accompagne durablement.
I have mixed feelings about this book. The story was interesting. The premise was interesting. It was paced well for the style. I didn't love it.
Maybe some of the challenges faced by Alex were too close to home. Maybe the idea that being connected to your responsibilities would keep you from dragoning was just too judgmental for me.
Yet, there were scenes that were amazingly moving for me. The poignancy of Bea's story struck me hard. The arc with Alex and Sofia was wonderfully written.
Includes: LBGTQ+ in both positive and negative lights, poly romance, McCarthyism, the liberalization of America, parental death and abandonment, ADHD character represented positively.
I have mixed feelings about this book. The story was interesting. The premise was interesting. It was paced well for the style. I didn't love it.
Maybe some of the challenges faced by Alex were too close to home. Maybe the idea that being connected to your responsibilities would keep you from dragoning was just too judgmental for me.
Yet, there were scenes that were amazingly moving for me. The poignancy of Bea's story struck me hard. The arc with Alex and Sofia was wonderfully written.
Includes: LBGTQ+ in both positive and negative lights, poly romance, McCarthyism, the liberalization of America, parental death and abandonment, ADHD character represented positively.
This book is extremely well written and powerful. I highly recommend it.
This book is extremely well written and powerful. I highly recommend it.
I think this was the fastest I've ever read a book. The chapters are short and punchy in the beginning, each referencing a significant moment in the "authors" life. The book is written as a memoir with scientific journals/court docs/opinion piece in newspapers mixed in between.
I loved the descriptions of knot magic throughout the book as an avid knitter/crocheter/weaver, so that may be what was pulling me through the first half of the book.
I really appreciated that the dragon allegory and society's reaction to it in the book can be applied to several topics outside of the classic 1950's feminism talking points. Yes you can slap the "They're talking about women's periods" onto it and just leave it be, but the book does spend a healthy amount of time talking about the emotional "why" of dragons and if you're looking, it very much isn't a biological thing.
I …
I think this was the fastest I've ever read a book. The chapters are short and punchy in the beginning, each referencing a significant moment in the "authors" life. The book is written as a memoir with scientific journals/court docs/opinion piece in newspapers mixed in between.
I loved the descriptions of knot magic throughout the book as an avid knitter/crocheter/weaver, so that may be what was pulling me through the first half of the book.
I really appreciated that the dragon allegory and society's reaction to it in the book can be applied to several topics outside of the classic 1950's feminism talking points. Yes you can slap the "They're talking about women's periods" onto it and just leave it be, but the book does spend a healthy amount of time talking about the emotional "why" of dragons and if you're looking, it very much isn't a biological thing.
I feel this book lets readers take a few different things away from it, but it doesn't throw them in your lap. I feel like I had a better emotional experience with this book reading between the lines of characters actions, but I will acknowledge I have very similar life experiences to the main character.
I was so excited for this, but unfortunately it left me bored. If I wasn't so stubborn I probably would have DNF'd. I'm struggling to put into words what didn't work for me, but I think I was expecting more from the dragons in a few ways. They just disappeared? For years? And came back with no acknowledgement of the pain they left behind? And the whole explanation of "well some people just sometimes feel called to dragon" was lacking as well, tell me why women are turning into dragons and more about how they're burning down everything that held them back please!
2.5 stars
I was so excited for this, but unfortunately it left me bored. If I wasn't so stubborn I probably would have DNF'd. I'm struggling to put into words what didn't work for me, but I think I was expecting more from the dragons in a few ways. They just disappeared? For years? And came back with no acknowledgement of the pain they left behind? And the whole explanation of "well some people just sometimes feel called to dragon" was lacking as well, tell me why women are turning into dragons and more about how they're burning down everything that held them back please!
2.5 stars
I was hoping for dragons, what I got was a book about not talking about dragons. The metaphor is clear, but repetitive and slow.
During the Mass Dragoning of 1955, 100,000s of women transformed into dragons and fled. The response of 50s America? Blush and say we don’t talk about women’s things. Nothing to see here, especially if you’re likely to be fed up with institutional misogyny and have a secret desire to run away from your husband and pursue your dreams.
It gives a lot of insight into the enforced silences and erasure that comes with patriarchal society, how you police yourself and the best weapon is ensuring people remain ignorant of their true power. The beautiful act of dragonning is liberating from this oppression. And yes, trans women also become dragons.
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