Half A Lifelong Romance Av Eileen Chang

<p><b>From one of twentieth-century China''s greatest writers and the author of <i>Lust, Caution</i>, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai. </b><br><br>Manzhen is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she meets Shijun, the son of wealthy merchants. Despite family complications, they fall in love and begin to dream of a shared life together - until circumstances force them apart. When they are reunited after a separation of many years, can they start their relationship again? Or is it destined to be the romance of only half a lifetime? This affectionate and captivating novel tells the moving story of an enduring love affair, and offers a fascinating window onto Chinese life in the first half of the twentieth century.<br><br>Eileen Chang was born in Shanghai in 1920. She studied literature at the University of Hong Kong but returned to Shanghai in 1941 during the Japanese occupation, where she e