Eileen Chang

La escritora china más importante del siglo xx. Como Stefan Zweig, Arthur Schnitzler o Irène Némirovsky, Chang se enamoró de un mundo que estaba a punto de desaparecer.Cuando Ge Weilong se presenta i

From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai. Manjing is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she meets Shujun, 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. 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. "A giant of modern Chinese literature". (The New York Times). "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).

An NYRB Classics Original After leaving the Mainland for Hong Kong in 1952, Eileen Chang was commissioned by the United States Information Service to write two books, one of which was her magnificent novel "Naked Earth." Far from being a simplistic exercise in anti-Communist propaganda (two previous novels Chang wrote were pro-Communist), "Naked Earth" is a powerfully moving, Balzacian tale that follows two young students, Liu Ch'uen and Su Nan, who fall in love at a time when, as Chang writes, "the whole country lay stretched out like an open palm, ready to close around any one person at any minute." Mao's land reform movement is in full force, and Liu and Su Nan are sent to a farm to help the peasants take over the fields. The work is hard, the nights long, and slowly it becomes clear that spies abound. Both Liu and Su Nan harbor festering secrets that are pulling them apart and Liu is eventually imprisoned by his enemies and sent to fight on the Korean front. A romance, a thrilling drama, a tragedy, "Naked Earth" is a stunning work of twentieth-century fiction by one of China's most revered modern novelists.

'Dead, she was his ghost' A gripping, intensely atmospheric story of love, espionage and betrayal in wartime Shanghai, Lust, Caution is accompanied here by four more shimmering tales of Chinese life.

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In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things are not always what they seem in wartime. Jiazhi's life is a front. A patriotic student radical, her mission is to seduce a powerful employee of the occupying government and lead him to the assassin's bullet. Yet as she waits for him to arrive at their liaison, Jiazhi begins to wonder if she is cut out to be a femme fatale and coldly take Mr Yi to his death. Or is she beginning to fall in love with him?

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Oscar] winner Ang Lee, this intensely passionate story of love and espionage brings 1940s Shanghai artfully to life even as it limns the erotic pulse of a doomed love affair. Now a major motion picture from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain"): an intensely passionate story of love and espionage, set in Shanghai during World War II. In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong, two lives become intertwined: Wong Chia Chi, a young student active in the resistance, and Mr. Yee, a powerful political figure who works for the Japanese occupational government. As these two move deftly between Shanghai''s tea parties and secret interrogations, they become embroiled in the complicated politics of wartime -- and in a mutual attraction that may be more than what they expected. Written in lush, lavish prose, and with the tension of a political thriller, Lust, Caution brings 1940s Shanghai artfully to life even as it limns the erotic pulse of a doomed love affair.

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.

Shanghai, 1941. Après son divorce, Lio-su revient vivre dans la demeure familiale, où trois générations cohabitent sous l’autorité incontestée de sa douairière. Quand madame Hsü se pique d’introduire

La escritora china más importante del siglo xx. Como Stefan Zweig, Arthur Schnitzler o Irène Némirovsky, Chang se enamoró de un mundo que estaba a punto de desaparecer.Cuando Ge Weilong se presenta i

Ya se sabe que al detective Travis McGee no le gusta demasiado ausentarse de Florida, sin embargo, cuando un antiguo compañero de armas al que le debe la vida le pida un favor, a McGee no le quedará mas remedio que atender su llamada e irse a Nueva York. Alli se encontrara con Nina, la hermana de su viejo amigo, cuyo prometido acaba de morir en extrañas circunstancias. Las autoridades consideran el suceso como uno mas de los multiples atracos callejeros que se producen en Manhattan, pero Nina tiene mas informacion: su novio habia encontrado irregularidades en la contabilidad de la empresa donde trabajaba. Lo unico que parece claro desde el principio es que la empresa va a proteger sus secretos cueste lo que cueste.Considerado unanimemente como uno de los escritores norteamericanos de novela negra mas importantes del pasado siglo, John D. MacDonald alcanzo el exito con la serie de novelas protagonizadas por Travis McGee, un moderno caballero andante, que se convertiria en su creacion mas atemporal y que le granjeara un inmenso exito de publico y critica. Pesadilla en rosa es la segunda novela de esa serie.

Written by one of the most lauded Chinese writers of the twentieth century, this bijou story focuses around the relationship between Mr and Mrs Mi and compares their bond of love with the sense of care they feel for the elderly Mrs Yang. A subtle examination of the fragile ties that bind us to those whom we love and those for whom we find ourselves caring along the way.

There were two women in Zhenbaos life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose. One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistress. Isnt that just how the average man describe a chaste widows devotion to her husbands memory - as spotless, and passionate too? Maybe every man has had two such women - at least two. Marry a red rose and eventually shell be a mosquito-blood streak smeared on the wall, while the white one is "moonlight in front of my bed." Marry a white rose, and before long shell be a grain of sticky rice thats gotten stuck to your clothes; the red one, by then, is a scarlet beauty mark just over your heart.In Eileen Changs eloquent and evocative novella, Zhenbao is a devoted son, a diligent worker, and guarded in love. But when he meets a friends spoilt, spirited, desirable wife, he cannot resist her charms, or keep their relationship under his control. As he succumbs to passions and resentments, Red Rose, White Rose is both sensual and restrained.

Dos relats d’Eileen Chang, la mestra de la novel·la breu, que parlen sobre l’amor quan el món s’ensorra. Eileen Chang té un lloc a la literatura universal a prop de Zweig i de Schnitzler: és una de l

In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things are not always what they seem in wartime. Jiazhis life is a front. A patriotic student radical, her mission is to seduce a powerful employee of the occupying government and lead him to the assassins bullet. Yet as she waits for him to arrive at their liaison, Jiazhi begins to wonder if she is cut out to be a femme fatale and coldly take Mr Yi to his death. Or is she beginning to fall in love with him?A passionate tale of espionage, deception and love, Lust, Caution is accompanied here by four further dazzling short stories by Eileen Chang.

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 Changs achievement is her short fictiontales 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.

From one of twentieth-century Chinas greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai. Manjing is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she meets Shujun, 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.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.A giant of modern Chinese literatureThe New York TimesEileen Chang is the fallen angel of Chinese literature Ang LeeA dazzling and distinctive fiction writerNew York Times Book ReviewChangs 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 reputationNew Yorker

An NYRB Classics OriginalSet in the early years of Maos China, Naked Earth is the story of two earnest young people confronting the grim realities of revolutionary change. Liu Chuan and Su Nan meet in the countryside after volunteering to assist in the new land reform program. Eager to build a more just society, they are puzzled and shocked by the brutality, barely disguised corruption, and ruthless careerism they discover, but then quickly silenced by the barrage of propaganda and public criticism that is directed at anyone who appears to doubt a righteous cause. Joined together by the secret of their common dismay, they remain in touch when Liu departs to work on a newspaper in Peking, where Su Nan eventually also moves. Something like love begins to grow between thembut then a new round of purges sweeps through the revolutionary ranks.One of the greatest and most loved of modern Chinese writers, Eileen Chang illuminates the dark corners of the human existence with a style of disorienting beauty. Naked Earth, unavailable in English for more than fifty years, is a harrowing tale of perverted ideals, damaged souls, deepest loneliness, and terror.

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 Changs 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 Julies opium-addict father, saunters around the world with various lovers. Recollections of Julies 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 theyre in the throes of an impassioned love affair that swings back and forth between ardor and anxiety, secrecy and ruin. Like Julies relationship with her mother, her marriage to Chih-yung is marked by long stretches of separation interspersed with unexpected little reunions. Changs emotionally fraught, bitterly humorous novel holds a fractured mirror directly in front of her own heart.