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...Anchee Min, author of the critically acclaimed historical novel Becoming Madame Mao, blatantly inserts all these elements in her latest offering, Wild Ginger (Houghton Mifflin; 217 pages). Min suffered a tumultuous childhood in China, finally escaping to the U.S., where she wrote a best-selling memoir. Novels like Wild Ginger are celebrated for their gripping historical accounts, but one suspects their success in the West is due in larger part to the authors' own sensational life stories. The book-jacket bios themselves play at the American immigrant fantasy: an attractive woman warrior babe escapes tyrannical regime, washes...
...Wild Ginger, Min's protagonist, has been marked out as a potential subversive since birth. She has exotic yellow-green eyes, a reflection of her mixed parentage (European father, Chinese mother). She starts off as a spunky little rebel, bravely rescuing the narrator, Maple, from the beatings of the schoolyard bully, Red Pepper. However, her need for acceptance makes her susceptible to brainwashing, and Wild Ginger becomes a Maoist hero (for foiling a burglary at a factory) and later develops into a communist demagogue. Her loyalty to the Red Machine requires her to repress her sexual yearnings for the resident...
...utopian troubles. The eight entrées alone strive to represent Middle Eastern, Asian, Southern and Mediterranean influences. Elsewhere, the round-the-world tour continues with Caribbean appetizers, French cheeses and Indian desserts. In the Blue Room’s brave new world, Asian vegetables with soba noodles, ginger, soy and sesame ($17) can turn up next to braised lamb shank with dates and almonds, couscous and harissa ($22). This is not mere “American eclectic” or “world fusion,” but an attempt at true culinary globalization...
...Sangria (glass $5, pitcher $19), vodka-blackberry lime rickey ($6) and—if things aren’t going too well—a “Dark and Stormy” ($5.25), an appealingly brooding combination of Gosling’s rum and ginger beer. A few of those could certainly work well with the “where the hell am I?” feel of the entire place...
...Afghan allies under General Ziahuddin --Special forces scouts and snipers --10th Mountain Division blocks ravine exits at battle positions Heather and Ginger --A Chinook helicopter crashes on the mountain to the east of Ginger --101st Airborne Division and Afghan forces sweep in --Army's 10th Mountain Division at battle position Eve blocks eastern pass