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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf [2003]. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. As New, in an as-new dust jacket. A perfect unread copy, never opened, brand new. Comes with an acid-free, archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A novel, translated from the French, originally published as La Joueuse de Go. Se during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. the novel tells the story of a 16-year-old Chinese girl who is exceptionally good at the game of Go, and her game with a young Japanese officer. The novel won a number of prizes, including the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens (Prix Goncourt of the High-school students) in 2001 and the Kiriyama Prize for fiction in 2004. In 2004, the novel was adapted into a German stage production which premiered at Freies Werkstatt Theater. Shan Sa is the pseudonym of Yan Ni (born October 26, 1972, in Beijing, China), a French author and painter. The Girl Who Played Go was the first of her novels to be published outside France.…