000			01191nam a2200181 4500
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020			_a9780143116530
024			_a466392712
050			_aPS3612.E4
082			_a813.6
100	1		_aJanice Y. K. Lee
245	1		_aThe Piano Teacher
260			_bPenguin Books _c2009
300			_a328 pages
520			_a"A rare and exquisite story...Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin." -Elizabeth Gilbert In the sweeping tradition of The English Patient, Janice Y.K. Lee's debut novel is a tale of love and betrayal set in war-torn Hong Kong. In 1942, Englishman Will Truesdale falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese as World War II overwhelms their part of the world. Ten years later, Claire Pendleton comes to Hong Kong to work as a piano teacher and also begins a fateful affair. As the threads of this spellbinding novel intertwine, impossible choices emerge-between love and safety, courage and survival, the present, and above all, the past.
650			_aHistorical Fiction
999			_c10704 _d10704