Little Reunions
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Little Reunions by Eileen Chang
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. 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 ardor and anxiety, secrecy and 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. Chang's emotionally fraught, bitterly humorous novel holds a fractured mirror directly in front of her own heart.
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781681371276 |
| ISBN 10 | 1681371278 |
| Title | Little Reunions |
| Author | Eileen Chang |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Year published | 2018-01-16 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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