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Little reunions / Eileen Chang ; translated from the Chinese by Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz.
Van Pelt Library PL2837.E35 X53613 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zhang, Ailing, author.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- New York Review Books Classics
- Standardized Title:
- Xiao tuan yuan. English
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Hong Kong (China)--Fiction.
- Hong Kong (China).
- Shanghai (China)--Fiction.
- Shanghai (China).
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Fiction.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--China--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Romance fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 332 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2018]
- Summary:
- A best-selling, autobiographical depiction of class privilege, bad romance, and political intrigue during World War II in China. Now available in English for the first time, Eileen Chang's dark romance opens with Julie, living at a convent school in Hong Kong on the eve of the Japanese invasion. Her mother, Rachel, long divorced from Julie's opium-addict father, saunters around the world with various lovers. Recollections of Julie's horrifying but privileged childhood in Shanghai clash with a flamboyant, sometimes incestuous cast of relations that crowd her life. Eventually, back in Shanghai, she meets the magnetic Chih-yung, a traitor who collaborates with the Japanese puppet regime. Soon they're in the throes of an impassioned love affair that swings back and forth between ardor and anxiety, secrecy and ruin. Like Julie's relationship with her mother, her marriage to Chih-yung is marked by long stretches of separation interspersed with unexpected little reunions. Chang's emotionally fraught, bitterly humorous novel holds a fractured mirror directly in front of her own heart.
- Eileen Chang's dark romance opens with Julie, living at a convent school in Hong Kong on the eve of the Japanese invasion. Her mother, Rachel, long divorced from Julie's opium-addict father, saunters around the world with various lovers. Recollections of Julie's horrifying but privileged childhood in Shanghai clash with a flamboyant, sometimes incestuous cast of relations that crowd her life. Eventually, back in Shanghai, she meets the magnetic Chih-yung, a traitor who collaborates with the Japanese puppet regime. Soon they're in the throes of an impassioned love affair that swings back and forth between ardor and anxiety, secrecy and ruin. Like Julie's relationship with her mother, her marriage to Chih-yung is marked by long stretches of separation interspersed with unexpected little reunions. Chang's emotionally fraught, bitterly humorous novel holds a fractured mirror directly in front of her own heart. -- amazon.com.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Zhang, Ailing author. Little reunions.
- ISBN:
- 9781681371276
- 1681371278
- OCLC:
- 984686190
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