Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang Esterbrook writers and sisters

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Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence—until the day her boyfriend Hideaki

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Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang Esterbrook writers and sistersEileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Changs achievement is her short fictiontales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when Chang was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual