Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang

Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang

Shanghai, 1930s. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry her. But dark circumstances--a lustful brother-in-law, a treacherous sister, a family secret--force the two young lovers apart.

As Manzhen and Shijun go on their separate paths, they lose track of one another, and their lives become filled with feints and schemes, missed connections and tragic misunderstandings. At every turn, societal expectations seem to thwart their prospects for happiness. Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope--however slim--that they might one day meet again. A glamorous, wrenching tale set against the glittering backdrop of an extraordinary city, Half a Lifelong Romance is a beloved classic from one of the essential writers of twentieth-century China.

Eileen Chang, a novelist, essayist, and screenwriter, was born into a wealthy Shanghai family in 1920. While the city was under Japanese occupation in 1941, she began to write the stories and essays that cemented her literary renown. She fled China in 1952 to avoid the Communist Party's influence, eventually settling in the United States in 1955. She continued to create novels, short stories, essays, and Hong Kong film screenplays. Her writings became extremely successful in the Chinese-speaking world in the 1970s.

Chang became increasingly reclusive as her celebrity grew, and she was discovered dead in her Los Angeles residence in 1995. Her writings are still being translated into English. Ang Lee directed a cinematic adaptation of her novella Lust, Caution, which was released in 2007.

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ISBN 13	9780307387547
ISBN 10	0307387542
Titel	Half a Lifelong Romance
Autor	Eileen Chang
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2016-03-08
Seitenanzahl	400
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