Author: Janice Y. K. Lee
Translator: An-na Kim
Publisher: Munhakdongne
480 pages | 210*141mm
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| >>>This book is written in Korean. |
About This Book
"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.
Janice Y.K. Lee was born and raised in Hong Kong and graduated from
Harvard University. A former editor at Elle magazine, she currently
lives in Hong Kong with her husband and children.
"THE PIANO TEACHER is laced with intrigue…Readers will be enthralled
by Lee's depiction of Will's relationships with his two lovers ?
'Claire, with her blond and familiar femininity, English rose to Trudy's
exotic scorpion' ? and the unsparing way Lee unravels them."
--New York Times Book Review
"Evocative, poignant and skillfully crafted, THE PIANO TEACHER is more
than an epic tale of war and a tangled, tortured love story. It is the
kind of novel one consumes in great, greedy gulps, pausing (grudgingly)
only when absolutely necessary …If we measure the skill of a fiction
writer by her ability to create characters and atmosphere so
effortlessly real, so alive on the page, that the reader feels a sense
of participatory anxiety ?as if the act of reading gives one the power
to somehow influence the outcome of purely imaginary events ? then Lee
should be counted among the very best in recent memory."
--Chicago Tribune
"Lee delivers a standout debut….The rippling of past actions through to
the present lends the narrative layers of intrigue and more than a few
unexpected twists. Lee covers a little- known time in Chinese history
without melodrama, and deconstructs without judgment the choices people
make in order to live one more day under torturous circumstances.”
--Publishers Weekly (Starred)
"War, love, betrayal ? an exquisite fugue of a first novel…Intensely
readable…”
--O, The Oprah Magazine
"…the novel is sustained by elegant prose and a terrific sense of place.
As Graham Greene evoked Vietnam in The Quiet American, Lee, born and
raised in Hong Kong long after the war, captures the city as it was
during World War II, its glittering veneer barely masking the panic and
corruption beneath."
--Miami Herald
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