![]() ![]() Her movie star elan captivates in peacetime during the war, the breezy glamour is a tool for survival.Ī decade later, Will encounters a very different but equally vivid creature, Claire Pendleton, an initially shy, rather naive wife of a British engineer. Will is swept into the orbit of Trudy Liang, a vivacious, beautiful woman who alternately charms and appalls the fashionable society of which she is very much the center, even though, as a Eurasian, she is also a perpetual outsider. ![]() The man in the romances is the same: Will Truesdale, a handsome Brit who just happens off a boat and into Hong Kong and never leaves. Both tales involve denizens of Hong Kong's monied expat community, though one takes place during the Second World War and the other 10 years later, when everyone (more or less) is a damaged survivor, having been complicitous in or self-destructively resistant to the events of 19. Lee's first novel, "The Piano Teacher," is a bargain, because it has not one but two epic romances. Lee Viking 328 pages $25.95ĭoes one read grand love stories in fiction anymore? If not, Janice Y.K. ![]()
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