Love in a Fallen City - Eileen Chang - Aubrey

[Aubrey]

Love in a Fallen City, Eileen Chang, translated from Chinese by Karen S. Kingsbury, 1943, China (China/United States), SHORT STORIES

"It's a flavor of acrid living that she captured on paper even in her youthful twenties, as these stories are happiness of the trained sort, gilded robes and bound feet reminiscent of ruffled skirts and excised ribs in the land of Christians and their Boxer Rebellion. True, Shanghai is not Paris or London, Berlin or New York, but you don't need white people to play out the conflicts of modern life on a theme of hope and decadence, luxurious backdrops galore to the young choking on the old, women flying too far to forget the taste when time comes for men to clip their wings."

(Aubrey, review)

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Dioni

[Dioni (Bookie Mee)]

This is my first Eileen Chang's book and I absolutely loved it. Submitting my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Aubrey]

Thanks for your review, Dioni. It has now been incorporated above.