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The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa is a coming-of-age story set in 1930s Manchuria, where a sixteen-year-old girl navigates her sexual awakening amidst the Japanese military invasion of her rural village. To escape her romantic entanglements with two local boys, she immerses herself in the game of Go, eventually playing against a Japanese soldier in disguise, leading to unexpected emotional entanglements and escalating tensions. Contains themes of military occupation, sexual violence, and pregnancy.