As the threads of this compelling and engrossing novel intertwine and converge, a landscape of impossible choices emerges - between love and safety, courage and survival, the present and above all, the past. K. She soon begins an affair!only to discover that her lover's enigmatic demeanour hides a devastating past. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Piano Teacher: A Novel, Lee, Janice Y. A provincial English newlywed, Claire is seduced by the colony's heady social life. Ten years later, Claire Pendleton lands in Hong Kong and is hired by the wealthy Chen family as their daughter's piano teacher. In 1942, Englishman Will Truesdale falls headlong into a passionate relationship.
But their love affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese, with terrible consequences for both of them, and for members of their fragile community who will betray each other in the darkest days of the war. The Piano Teacher is a tale of love and betrayal set in war-torn Hong Kong. Sometimes the end of a love affair is only the beginning! In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. Good secondhand condition.Īmbitious, exotic, and a classic book club read, 'The Piano Teacher' is a combination of 'Tenko' meets 'The Remains of the Day'. en - ISBN 10: 000732944X - ISBN 13: 9780007329441 - William Collins - 2009. A historical and romantic narrative, alternating between the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II and a time roughly ten years later that.
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