Half a Lifelong Romance

Eileen Chang

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Publisher:: Penguin Books Ltd, 07/2014
Binding:: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9780141189390
Item number:: 4207103
Volume:: 400 Pages
Copyright-Jahr:: 2014
Weight:: 298 g
Format:: 195 x 126 mm
Thickness:: 27 mm
Release date:: 31.7.2014
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Short description

Manjing is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she meets Shujun, the son of wealthy Nanjing merchants. Despite family objections and complications, they fall in love and begin to dream of a shared life together. But disaster strikes, and the couple are torn apart.

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Eileen Chang was born in Shanghai in 1920. She studied literature at the University of Hong Kong but returned to Shanghai in 1941 during the Japanese occupation, where she established her reputation as a literary star. She moved to America in 1955 and died in Los Angeles in 1995.

Karen S. Kingsbury taught and studied in Chinese-speaking cities for nearly two decades, and currently lives in Pennsylvania, USA. She has translated Love in a Fallen City for Penguin Classics, as well as other essays and stories by Chang.

Biography

Eileen Chang, eigentlich Zhang Ailing, geb. 1920 in Shanghai. Ihre literarische Karriere beginnt 1942 in der von Japanern besetzten Stadt. Es erscheinen zwei Erzählungsbände. 1952 geht sie zunächst nach Hongkong und Taiwan, 1955 dann in die USA, wo sie an verschiedenen Universitäten unterrichtete. Sie stirbt 1995 in San Francisco.