- Translations into English, Chinese Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), China, fiction
"Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China. 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.
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Prestige, grave, classical in form and contemplative.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Eileen Chang
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 321
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics, New York Review Books, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9781435281448
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Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter.
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