Love Can Lie

I bought this book just a few day ago from an online book store, first I assumed that this book “Love can Lie” was written by an author named Alexander Romanoff, and frankly when I read the author name my memory went back to the Romanoff clan (the last tsar of Russia) and I immedietlly feel interesting in this book because for me the Romanoff family still have a magic in it and it will be interesting to read a book that was written by one of them.

But when I bought and read it I found out that the book was actually written by a group of author and it was a bundle of prose from them, the writers was : Alexander Romanoff, Reza Jula’I, Morteza Miraftabi, Shahrnush Parsipur, and Moniru Ravanipur and they all write one or two prose in this book and all of them is a powerful story with lots of philosophical word, that hard to understand but luckily they also give some kind of thesaurus about the word for us in the end of each prose to make it easier to understand (although sometimes I still think it is kind a hard to do because sometimes you just pass the hard word and when you get to the end of the prose you already forget which one the hard word was).

The most powerful story in this book was of course the main one “Love can lie”. The story line was about Nag Hong Fah a Chinese who lived in America (I think..) and he have a wife named Yuan Quai but his wife was unfertile so he married another women with hope that the other women will gave him a son to follow the family line. The other women was Fanny Mei Hi, she was a prostitute who have 9/10 blood of Chinese but she always deny it.

Fanny and Nag Hong Fah live happily and Fanny gave birth to a son named Brian, but when Fanny gave birth to another child which is now a girl named Little Fanny their live suddenly change, In Chinese tradition a girl is not worth it, as Nag Hong Fah said “a girl is only good to gave birth or to keep the house clean”. That is why Nag Hong Fah attitude toward Brian and little Fanny was different. Although he also gave affection to little Fanny and his attitude doesn’t mean that he doesn’t love the baby but it is the tradition that make him act differently to little Fanny. He also planning to sell little Fanny to other Chinese relative.

Seeing that Fanny as the mother of the baby feel that this is not fair and she tries all that she can do to keep little Fanny and gave her the best live and education she deserve. But the problem is Fanny doesn’t have any money to provide the best life for little Fanny. And what can she do? After all she is just a woman. All of the dilemmatic problems come across fanny. She even thinking about going back to the prostitution world in order to save her little Fanny. The end of the story was difficult to guess which make it more interesting to read the other entire story in this book.

The story was truly powerful and interesting to follow. But I have to warn you there are a lot of hard philosophical words in this book. So if you like a heavy reading this one is absolutely for you :)