Other Go Fiction?


I just finished Shan Sa's novel La Joueuse de go. (Amazon has a translation "The Girl Who Played Go.") Not bad. A little melodramatic. Alternate chapters belong to a sixteen-year-old unheralded go genius and a twenty-four-year-old Japanese soldier in Manchuria. In some respects the Japanese occupation seems tame: go players continue playing in Thousand Winds Park. But the atrocities horrify all the more so against 21st Century goings on. Eventually the two protagonists meet over the board. Their game--just one--their only--lasts several days. Suspense over how or whether it will continue or someone win is inextricable from the novel's denouement. If you think about it, Go, capturing by surrounding, killing stones than remain in place though "dead," offers better analogies for occupation than other first order games like Chess.

My question is, beyond Hikaru no go on disk and page, The Girl Who Played Go, and Kawabata's The Go Master that I first read long before I learned the game, can anyone point to other worthwhile Go fiction?

English, French, Italian, or Spanish would do.

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