Love in a fallen city - Ailing Zhang

Masterful short works about passion, family, and human relationships by one of the greatest writers of 20th century China.

A New York Review Books Original

"[A] giant of modern Chinese literature" -The New
York Times

"With language as sharp as a knife edge, Eileen Chang cut open a huge
divide in Chinese culture, between the classical patriarchy and our troubled modernity.
She was one of the very few able truly to connect that divide, just as her heroines
often disappeared inside it. She is the fallen angel of Chinese literature, and now,
with these excellent new translations, English readers can discover why she is so
revered by Chinese readers everywhere." -Ang Lee

Eileen Chang is one of the great
writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both
on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction-tales
of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life.
Written when Chang was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine
an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics
and psychological ambiguity, with an intense lyricism that echoes the classics of
Chinese literature. Love in a Fallen City, the first collection in English of this
dazzling body of work, introduces American readers to the stark and glamorous vision
of a modern master.