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Little Reunions

Little Reunions

Eileen Chang, Martin Merz, Jane Weizhen Pan
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Chang’s emotionally fraught, bitterly humorous novel holds a fractured mirror directly in front of her own heart. 

A best-selling, autobiographical depiction of class privilege, bad romance, & 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 ardour and anxiety, secrecy & 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. 

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Eileen Chang (1920–1995) was born into an aristocratic family in Shanghai. Two novels, The Rice Sprout Song & Naked Earth, were followed by a third, The Rouge of the North (1967), which expanded on her celebrated early novella “The Golden Cangue.” 

Eileen Chang was found dead in her Los Angeles apartment in September 1995. In 2006, NYRB Classics published Love in a Fallen City, an original collection of her short fiction. The following year, Lust, Caution, a film adaptation of Chang’s 1979 novella, directed by Ang Lee, was released. 

Année:
2018
Editeur::
New York Review of Books
Langue:
english
Pages:
352
ISBN 10:
1681371278
ISBN 13:
9781681371276
ISBN:
B071YKRKSS
Fichier:
EPUB, 2.73 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2018
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