Eileen Chang: Love in a Fallen City: Eileen Chang (Penguin Modern Classics) [2007] paperback Condition:New And it was a period

And it was a period of almost unparalleled hedonism

the political manoeuvrings that brought Churchill to power

fame comes with a price

At twenty-six years old

at the centre of it all

Eileen Chang: Love in a Fallen City: Eileen Chang (Penguin Modern Classics) [2007] paperback Condition:New And it was a periodEileen 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 she was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual