K: The Art of Love
  • Published: 6 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141965345
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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K: The Art of Love

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Reissue of a classic Chinese novel, new in Penguin

China, 1930s. Julian Bell, son of the Bloomsbury set's Vanessa, is newly arrived in Peking. In search of fresh experiences, he encounters the beautiful, intelligent and deeply erotic Lin Cheng. Though Lin is wife to a university professor, their passionate assignations blossom into an affair.

Schooled in the ancient Taoist arts of love, Lin instructs Julian in the ways of the East. But if society won't tolerate this union between Occidental and Oriental can their love possibly survive?

Based on a true story this is a tragic tale of romance, betrayal and sexual desire set against a backdrop of conflict and war.
  • Published: 6 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141965345
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
Categories:

About the author

Hong Ying

Hong Ying grew up in the slums of Chongquing on the Yangtze River in China. An author and poetess, she is best known in the English-speaking world for her novel, Summer of Betrayal, and an autobiography, Daughter of the River. Her collection of short stories, A Lipstick Called Red Pepper, has been translated into ten Western languages and Japanese.

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Praise for K: The Art of Love

Written with a wonderfully intense simplicity - it's tough, uncompromising, direct and tense with strong emotion, but also full of poetry and grace

Andrew Motion

A beautiful and gripping writer

Tariq Ali, Independent

Readable, clever and spare

Tibor Fischer, Erotic Review
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