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Love in a Fallen City

by Eileen Chang, Karen S. Kingsbury
Love in a Fallen City - Thryft
Love in a Fallen City - Thryft

Passionate tales of love and family life.

Love in a Fallen City could be a good read for those interested in historical fiction set in China, particularly for those that enjoy stories that revolve around romance and family. The book's unique appeal lies in the author's contemporary sensibility towards sexual politics and psychology, combined with intense lyricism. Users may appreciate the stark and glamorous vision of modern China that the author presents, making it a compelling and engrossing read.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Love in a Fallen City

by Eileen Chang, Karen S. Kingsbury
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ISBN: 9780141189369
Authors: Eileen Chang, Karen S. Kingsbury
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 2007-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Romance
Related Topics: Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.9
(rated by 2931 readers)

Description

The works in this volume show Eileen Chang's brilliance in the short-story form. Through fascinating evocations of the great cities of Hong Kong and Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s, she provides revealing glimpses of Chinese Life - both traditional and modern - as she depicts a world of concubines and opium addicts, fast living and family affairs.In the novella Love in a Fallen City, an unlikely couple find true romance as bombs fall on Hong Kong during the Second World War. And in other tales, a schoolgirl is lured into the decadent world of her disreputable aunt, an awkward student's overpowering wish for a different father has disastrous consequences, and a successful businessman reflects on the women he has loved and lost.
 

Passionate tales of love and family life.

Love in a Fallen City could be a good read for those interested in historical fiction set in China, particularly for those that enjoy stories that revolve around romance and family. The book's unique appeal lies in the author's contemporary sensibility towards sexual politics and psychology, combined with intense lyricism. Users may appreciate the stark and glamorous vision of modern China that the author presents, making it a compelling and engrossing read.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.