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21%OFFEileen Chang - Love in a Fallen City - 9780141189369 - V9780141189369
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Love in a Fallen City

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Description for Love in a Fallen City Paperback. Collects the stories that combine an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity, with an intense lyricism that echoes the classics of Chinese literature. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 266.
Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction-tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when she was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity, with an intense lyricism that echoes the classics of Chinese literature. Love in a Fallen City, the first collection in English of this dazzling body of work, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141189369
SKU
V9780141189369
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About Eileen Chang
Eileen Chang (1920-1995) was born into an aristocratic family in Shanghai. Chang studied literature at the University of Hong Kong, but the Japanese attack on the city in 1941 forced her to return to occupied Shanghai, where she was able to publish the stories and essays (collected in two volumes, Romances, 1944, and Written on Water, 1945) that soon made ... Read more

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