Half a lifelong romance

ISBN: 9780375425257
ISBN: 037542525X
ISBN: 9780307387547
ISBN: 0307387542
Physical Description: remote 1 online resource (379 pages)
Edition: First Anchor books edition.
Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, a Division of Random House LLC, 2016.
Copyright: &copy;2014

Zhang, Ailing (author.). Kingsbury, Karen S., (translator.).

Summary: "Shanghai, 1930s. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. But dark circumstances--a lustful brother-in-law, a treacherous sister, a family secret--force the two young lovers apart. As Manzhen and Shijun go on their separate paths, they lose track of one another, and their lives become filled with feints and schemes, missed connections and tragic misunderstandings. At every turn, societal expectations seem to thwart their prospects for happiness. Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope--however slim--that they might one day meet again. A glamorous, wrenching tale set against the glittering backdrop of an extraordinary city, Half a Lifelong Romance is a beloved classic from one of the essential writers of twentieth-century China"--