Janet wrote:

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng.
I don't know whether to thank or curse you- the book queue in my smartphone
just got longer- and I'm only partway through "Ender's Game," having found
out that the book the poorly-rated movie is based on is:
Very good.
The first of a series of SEVEN!

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