Love in a Fallen City

Zhang Ailing

Original title: Love in a fallen city

Translated by Karen S. Kingsbury first published 2006 NYRB Classics, 2006 paperback 320 pages

New York Review Books classics

"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. Written when Chang was still in her twenties, these stories combine a contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity, with a lyricism that echoes the classics of...

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This book in English

Karen S. Kingsbury 1 printing we hold · 2006 · NYRB Classics
Karen S. Kinsbury 1 printing we hold · 2008 · Paw Prints 2008-05-22

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Love in a Fallen City edition · 2008 · Paw Prints 2008-05-22 · 321 pages · 9781435281448
Love in a Fallen City edition · 2007 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780141930077
Love in a Fallen City (New York Review Books Classics) paperback · 2006 · NYRB Classics · 320 pages · 9781590171783

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