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1 online resource |
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Electronic book. |
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Electronic reproduction. New York Penguin Publishing Group 2009 Available via World Wide Web. |
| Summary |
Exotic Hong Kong takes center stage in this sumptuous novel, set in the 1940s and '50s. It's a city teeming with people, sights, sounds, and smells, and it's home to a group of foreign nationals who enjoy the good life among the local moneyed set, in a tight-knit social enclave distanced from the culture at large. Comfortable, clever, and even a bit dazzling, they revel in their fancy dinners and fun parties. But their sheltered lives take an abrupt turn after the Japanese occupation, and though their reactions are varied -- denial, resistance, submission -- the toll it takes on all is soon laid bare. Enter Claire Pendleton from London. Months after her husband is transferred to Hong Kong in 1951, she accepts a position as a piano teacher to the daughter of a wealthy couple, the Chens. Claire begins to see the appeal of the sweltering city and is soon taken in by the Chen's driver, the curiously underutilized Will Truesdale. A handsome charmer with a mysterious limp, Will appears to be the perfect companion for Claire, who's often left to her own devices. But a further examination leaves her with more questions than answers. |
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Piano teachers -- Fiction.
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Married women -- Fiction.
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English -- China -- Hong Kong -- Fiction.
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Hong Kong (China) -- Fiction.
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Nineteen fifties -- Fiction.
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Love stories.
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Electronic books.
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OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781440656309 (electronic bk.) |
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