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THE PIANO TEACHER.
by Lee, Janice Y K
- Used
- Condition
- Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
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About This Item
New York:: Viking,, (2009). Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The author's very highly praised first novel, sent in the then British colony of Hong Kong (where she was born) during the Japanese invasion in World War II and in the years just afterwards. 326 pp.
Synopsis
"A rare and exquisite story...Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin." -Elizabeth Gilbert In the sweeping tradition of The English Patient , Janice Y.K. Lee's debut novel is a tale of love and betrayal set in war-torn Hong Kong. In 1942, Englishman Will Truesdale falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese as World War II overwhelms their part of the world. Ten years later, Claire Pendleton comes to Hong Kong to work as a piano teacher and also begins a fateful affair. As the threads of this spellbinding novel intertwine, impossible choices emerge-between love and safety, courage and survival, the present, and above all, the past.
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Details
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Seller Inventory #
- 64979
- Title
- THE PIANO TEACHER.
- Author
- Lee, Janice Y K
- Book condition
- Used - Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
- Publisher
- Viking,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date published
- (2009)
- Keywords
- historical fiction, world war ii fiction, hong kong, china, korean author, arc, uncorrected proof,
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