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Lust, Caution and Other Stories

Eileen Chang
3.58/5 (526 ratings)
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In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high-society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces, and in wartime things are not always what they seem.

Jiazhi's life is a front. A patriotic student radical, her mission is to seduce a powerful employee of the occupying government and lead him to the assassin's bullet. Yet as she waits for him to arrive at their liasion, Jiazhi begins to wonder if she is cut out to be a femme fatake and coldly take Mr Yi to his death. Or is she beginning to fall in love with him?

A passionate tale of espionage, deception and love, accompanied here by four further short stories by Eileen Chang.
Format:
Pages:
162 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Penguin Modern Classics
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0141034386
ISBN13:
9780141034386
kindle Asin:
B002XHNMEO

Lust, Caution and Other Stories

Eileen Chang
3.58/5 (526 ratings)
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In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high-society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces, and in wartime things are not always what they seem.

Jiazhi's life is a front. A patriotic student radical, her mission is to seduce a powerful employee of the occupying government and lead him to the assassin's bullet. Yet as she waits for him to arrive at their liasion, Jiazhi begins to wonder if she is cut out to be a femme fatake and coldly take Mr Yi to his death. Or is she beginning to fall in love with him?

A passionate tale of espionage, deception and love, accompanied here by four further short stories by Eileen Chang.
Format:
Pages:
162 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Penguin Modern Classics
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0141034386
ISBN13:
9780141034386
kindle Asin:
B002XHNMEO

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