i would have appreciated this book a lot more if it weren't for the climax which was awfully dark. She's also the author for Lust, Caution (色,诫), and its film adaptation is released in 2007 (it is with this film that Director Ang Lee won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for the second time.) The original version was published in the early 1950s, then substantially revised, with a political plotline excised for a 1969 edition.
It was initially serialized on a Shanghai newspaper Yi Bao (亦報) in 1948, under the title Eighteen Springs (十八春). Kin “[find] each other’s lives inscrutable” in this rich, sharp story about the way identity is formed. But while hitchhiking to his first day of classes at a nearby black college, Elwood accepts a ride in what turns out to be a stolen car and is sentenced to the Nickel Academy, a juvenile reformatory that looks somewhat like the campus he’d almost attended but turns out to be a monstrously racist institution whose students, white and black alike, are brutally beaten, sexually abused, and used by the school’s two-faced officials to steal food and supplies. He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves.
Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. Both Elwood’s idealism and Turner’s cynicism entwine into an alliance that compels drastic action—and a shared destiny. Elwood Curtis is a law-abiding, teenage paragon of rectitude, an avid reader of encyclopedias and after-school worker diligently overcoming hardships that come from being abandoned by his parents and growing up black and poor in segregated Tallahassee, Florida. Came expecting heartbreak and a sweet youthful romance kinda in the style of Love in the Time of Cholera but what did I get instead?! It was almost Midsummer's NigI don't really know how to rate this book. A wild ride that literally brought me to some kinda Gothic romance on par with something Ann Radcliffe might have written. But Shijun, when he looked back at it all, treasured this trait of hers. [PDF] [EPUB] Half a Lifelong Romance Download by Eileen Chang. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen.
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It’s the early 1960s, and Elwood can feel changes coming every time he listens to an LP of his hero Martin Luther King Jr. sermonizing about breaking down racial barriers. But Shijun, when he looked back at it all, treasured this trait of hers. The only thing you can do is to be strong and face it even when you have to live in regrets. A wild ride that literally brought me to some kinda Gothic romance on par with something Ann Radcliffe might have written. Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry A fascinating book, despite difficulties in translation and its distance from the Western cannon that makes it difficult to appreciate. Half a Lifelong Romance (半生緣) is a Chinese novel by Eileen Chang. Start by marking “Half a Lifelong Romance” as Want to Read: Published All Rights Reserved. A woman who knew about women. Inseparable identical twin sisters ditch home together, and then one decides to vanish.The talented Bennett fuels her fiction with secrets—first in her lauded debut, by
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