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Half A Lifelong Romance
  • Published: 24 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141189390
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $37.99
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Half A Lifelong Romance

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24 Sept 2014
EBook
31 July 2014
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From the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai

Manzhen is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she meets Shijun, the son of wealthy merchants. Despite family complications, they fall in love and begin to dream of a shared life together - until circumstances force them apart. When they are reunited after a separation of many years, can they start their relationship again? Or is it destined to be the romance of only half a lifetime? This affectionate and captivating novel tells the moving story of an enduring love affair, and offers a fascinating window onto Chinese life in the first half of the twentieth century.
  • Published: 24 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141189390
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $37.99
Categories:

About the author

Eileen Chang

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.
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Traces of Love
Red Rose, White Rose
Lust, Caution
Love In A Fallen City
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Praise for Half A Lifelong Romance

It took 46 years, but at long last English-language readers are now able to enjoy one of Eileen Chang's most popular works, Half a Lifelong Romance. A dramatic story of love, betrayal, opportunism and family oppression set in 1930s Shanghai, it is an enveloping, haunting and insightful read, rich in Chang's trademark passionate prose

Wall Street Journal

Eileen Chang is the fallen angel of Chinese literature

Ang Lee

A dazzling and distinctive fiction writer

New York Times Book Review

Chang's world is a stark and mysterious place where people strive to find their way in love but often fail under the pressures of family, tradition, and reputation

New Yorker

Karen S. Kingsbury's capable new translation of the novel

The Times Literary Supplement