Eileen Chang
Paperback | Pages: 96 pages Rating: 3.7 | 1111 Users | 107 Reviews
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| Title | : | Lust, Caution: The Story |
| Author | : | Eileen Chang |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 96 pages |
| Published | : | September 4th 2007 by Anchor (first published 1978) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. China. Historical. Historical Fiction. Short Stories. Romance. Asia |
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Now a major motion picture from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain): an intensely passionate story of love and espionage, set in Shanghai during World War II.In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong, two lives become intertwined: Wong Chia Chi, a young student active in the resistance, and Mr. Yee, a powerful political figure who works for the Japanese occupational government. As these two move deftly between Shanghai’s tea parties and secret interrogations, they become embroiled in the complicated politics of wartime — and in a mutual attraction that may be more than what they expected. Written in lush, lavish prose, and with the tension of a political thriller, Lust, Caution brings 1940s Shanghai artfully to life even as it limns the erotic pulse of a doomed love affair.
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| Original Title: | 色，戒 |
| ISBN: | 0307387445 (ISBN13: 9780307387448) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.7 From 1111 Users | 107 ReviewsJudgment Epithetical Books Lust, Caution: The Story
He was not optimistic about the way the war was going, and he had no idea how it would turn out for him. But now that he had enjoyed the love of a beautiful woman, he could die happy -- without regret. He could feel her shadow forever near him, comforting him. Even though she had hated him at the end, she had at least felt something. And now he possessed her utterly, primitively -- as a hunter does his quarry, a tiger his kill. Alive, her body belonged to him; dead, she was his ghost.3.5/5What is real? And what is a performance?
Just one word. Uttered almost in whisper, by a woman. She told her lover: "Run." I paused, staggered, heartbeat quickening as I raced towards the ending. Then I went back to the page where this word was, eleven pages earlier.""Run,' she said softly."They are inside a jewelry store. A rich, married, powerful politician working for the Japanese occupying Hongkong during the war and his young, beautiful mistress secretly working for the resistance. They are choosing a diamond ring, his gift to her.
The story is surprisingly short, which can be finished by a couple of hours. It supports the idea that everyone can write something interesting, not necessarily long to be named "Classic".I guess the flow of reading it was, in some way, influenced and preoccupied by the movie as I watched it first. Some descriptions of the interior of a building always get me out of joy in reading it. Not too sure if it's because English is not my first language. "The way to a woman's heart is through her
Just one word. Uttered almost in whisper, by a woman. She told her lover: "Run." I paused, staggered, heartbeat quickening as I raced towards the ending. Then I went back to the page where this word was, eleven pages earlier.""Run,' she said softly."They are inside a jewelry store. A rich, married, powerful politician working for the Japanese occupying Hongkong during the war and his young, beautiful mistress secretly working for the resistance. They are choosing a diamond ring, his gift to her.
Part of my twentieth-century spies-and-conflict obsession. Beautifully vivid writing and sympathetically drawn characters. I wish it was longer, but we have the Ang Lee adaptation for that. It's rare to find a book shorter than the film. Lovely experience reading/seeing both.
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