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Love in a Fallen City

(New York Review Books Classics)

By Eileen Chang, Karen S. Kingsbury (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9781590171783

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A New York Review Books Original

“[A] giant of modern Chinese literature” The New York Times

"With language as sharp as a knife edge, Eileen Chang cut open a huge divide in Chinese culture, between the classical patriarchy and our troubled modernContinue

A New York Review Books Original

“[A] giant of modern Chinese literature” The New York Times

"With language as sharp as a knife edge, Eileen Chang cut open a huge divide in Chinese culture, between the classical patriarchy and our troubled modernity. She was one of the very few able truly to connect that divide, just as her heroines often disappeared inside it. She is the fallen angel of Chinese literature, and now, with these excellent new translations, English readers can discover why she is so revered by Chinese readers everywhere." Ang Lee

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 Chang’s achievement is her short fiction—tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when Chang 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 American readers to the stark and glamorous vision of a modern master.

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  • Love in a Fallen City

    Love in a Fallen City will continue to introduce Eileen Chang to the West, but she is, to mainland and Taiwanese readers, a much picked-over literary giantess: a Sylvia Plath analogue with her own culture industry, who had reporters flying to L.A. to ... (read full critics)

    believermag published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

  • Love In a Fallen City

    Eileen Chang achieved early fame in China with the publication of two volumes of stories and essays in the nineteen-forties, but she emigrated for political reasons in the early nineteen-fifties, eventually settling in California, where she lived rec ... (read full critics)

    newyorker published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 320 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1590171780
  • ISBN-13: 9781590171783
  • Publisher: NYRB Classics
  • Pub date: Oct 10, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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