Love in a Fallen City
A Romance, Short Stories, Historical book. Another one bites the dust.First story is Aloeswood Incense. Lovely but bittersweet. Love...
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, introduces readers to the stark and glamorous vision of a modern master.
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- Pages: 352 pages
- ISBN: 9780141189369 / 141189363
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Another one bites the dust.First story is Aloeswood Incense. Lovely but bittersweet. Love is a dangerous drug. 3.5/5.Second story: Jasmine Tea. OMFG. What an unlikeable, heinous character, rendering this short story practically unreadable. 0.5/5 stars.That last story soured the entire reading experience for me. I knew this book wasn't... / Mercy: The story starts out with tension between a mature age couple over the issue of the husband's ex-wife. While visiting relatives, the tension gradually eases as the couple is praised, advised, and commented on their close marital relationship. Despite the inevitable conflicts between a couple, at the end of day, what matters... I am always interested in worlds that are different to my own and so I started to read my first book written by a Chinese author. The collection of stories by Eileen Chang set in Shanghai and Hong Kong in the 1940s. These are tales of love, loss and longing. On a wider cover, they deal with conflicts between tradition and modernity,...
