A best-selling, autobiographical depiction of class privilege, bad romance, and political intrigue during World War II in China.
Recollections of Julie\'s horrifying but privileged childhood in Shanghai clas.
Her mother, Rachel, long divorced from Julie\'s opium-addict father, saunters around the world with various lovers.
Now available in English for the first time, Eileen Chang\'s dark romance opens with Julie, living at a convent school in Hong Kong on the eve of the Japanese invasion.
A best-selling, autobiographical depiction of class privilege, bad romance, and political intrigue during World War II in China