The Piano Teacher

Autor: Lee, Janice Y. K.

Editorial: Penguin

Lenguaje: Inglés Internacional

ISBN13: 9780143116530

Reseña: 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 The New York Times bestseller Janice Y.K. Lees latest novel The Expatriates is now available from Penguin In the sweeping tradition of The English Patient Janice Y.K. Lees 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.