Little Reunions Chang EileenPaperback
Little Reunions Chang EileenPaperback 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…
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Little Reunions Chang EileenPaperback
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. Recollections of Julie's horrifying but privileged childhood in Shanghai clash with a flamboyant, sometimes incestuous cast of relations that crowd her life. Her mother, Rachel, long divorced from Julie's opium-addict father, saunters around the world with various lovers.
Soon they're in the throes of an impassioned love affair that swings back and forth between ardor and anxiety, secrecy and ruin. Eventually, back in Shanghai, she meets the magnetic Chih-yung, a traitor who collaborates with the Japanese puppet regime. Like Julie's relationship with her mother, her marriage to
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