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Love in a Fallen City (New York Review Books Classics)
Love in a Fallen City - New York Review Books Classics Author:Eileen Chang, Karen S. Kingsbury (Translator) Love in a Fallen Cityis the first English-language publication to present a full selection of this haunting writer’s novellas, the heart of her achievement. These are stories of seduction and betrayal, hypocrisy, cruelty, and frustration: a girl falls for a cad who she knows does not love her; a young man is driven to an act... more » of terrible and yet futile violence by his father’s abuse and his own dark desires; a woman draws on the ever-diminishing credit of her good reputation in an attempt to snare an indifferent man; a couple’s accidental meeting in a besieged city leads to the discovery that true love is a matter of expediency, not passion. “The Story of the Golden Cangue,” here in Eileen Chang’s own celebrated translation, offers a portrait of an aggrieved wife whose relentless pursuit of vengeance–on her husband, her children, and above all herself–turns her into one of the most terrifying and pitiful monsters in modern fiction.« less