K: The Art of Love - Softcover

Hong Ying

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241950694 ISBN 13: 9780241950692

Publisher: Penguin, 2011

Synopsis

It's China, 1930s. Julian Bell, son of the Bloomsbury set's Vanessa, is newly arrived in Peking. In search of fresh experiences, he encounters the beautiful, intelligent and deeply erotic Lin Cheng. Though Lin is wife to a university professor, their passionate assignations blossom into an affair. Schooled in the ancient Taoist arts of love, Lin instructs Julian in the ways of the East. But if society won't tolerate this union between Occidental and Oriental can their love possibly survive? Based on a true story this is a tragic tale of romance, betrayal and sexual desire set against a backdrop of conflict and war.

About this title

About the Author:

Hong Ying was born into a sailor's family in Chongqing on the Yangtze River in Southwest China. An author and poet, she began her career as a full-time writer in the early 1980s having studied creative writing at Lu Xun Creative Writing Academy and Fudan University. She is best known in the English-speaking world for her novels: K: The Art of Love (which won the Prix de Rome in 2005), The Concubine of Shanghai, Peacock Cries and Summer of Betrayal. Her autobiography, Daughter of the River, has been translated into twenty-nine languages and many of her works have been turned into television series and films. Her latest memoir, Good Children of the Flowers, a sequel to Daughter of the River, won Asia Weekly's Top Ten Books of the Year Award 2009. She lives in Beijing with her husband and daughter.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Chinese

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0241950694
• ISBN 13: 9780241950692
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256