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Half a Lifelong Romance (Penguin Modern Classics)

作者:Chang, Eileen/ Kingsbury, Karen(tr.)

出版社:Penguin U.K.

出版日期:2024.08.09

ISBN:9780141189390

書號:20315207

裝訂:平裝

定價:$450

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內容簡介
「世鈞,我們都回不去了」
一段註定破碎的愛情,寫就超過一世紀的經典
張愛玲最令人揪心的作品—《半生緣》
 
民國年間,在上海工作的顧曼楨和沈世鈞結識,年輕又耀眼的兩人彼此吸引,情投意合,然而沈世鈞老家在南京,雙親早有意將門當戶對的石翠芝介紹給他,但當世鈞同好友一起帶曼楨回南京介紹給親友認識時,同事許叔惠則和石翠芝互有好感,但羞於自己家世和財力均比不上石翠芝,遲遲不敢表明心意。
 
曼楨的姐姐顧曼璐很年輕就出來工作養家,扛起一家的家計,與表親張豫瑾曾有婚約,卻為了賺錢去當舞女因而遭退婚,隨著年華老去,如今淪落去做交際花。
 
張豫瑾後來對曼楨越是喜歡,甚至向曼楨求婚,曼楨雖拒絕,卻已在世均和曼璐的心上都留下陰影。當曼璐好不容易攀上買辦起家的祝鴻才,又因為無法生子,深怕遭祝鴻才拋棄,看妹妹兩情相悅,讓她心生妒忌,居然設局讓祝鴻才強暴曼楨,之後甚至監禁她還舉家搬走;世鈞苦苦尋人不著,以為曼楨變心嫁給了張豫瑾,心灰意冷的他於是順從家裡的婚配,和石翠芝結婚…
 

From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai.

Manzhen is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she meets Shijun, the son of wealthy merchants. Despite family complications, they fall in love and begin to dream of a shared life together - until circumstances force them apart. When they are reunited after a separation of many years, can they start their relationship again? Or is it destined to be the romance of only half a lifetime? This affectionate and captivating novel tells the moving story of an enduring love affair, and offers a fascinating window onto Chinese life in the first half of the twentieth century.

Eileen Chang was born in Shanghai in 1920. She studied literature at the University of Hong Kong but returned to Shanghai in 1941 during the Japanese occupation, where she established her reputation as a literary star. She moved to America in 1955 and died in Los Angeles in 1995.

Karen S. Kingsbury taught and studied in Chinese-speaking cities for nearly two decades, and currently lives in Pennsylvania, USA. She has translated Love in a Fallen City for Penguin Classics, as well as other essays and stories by Chang

作者介紹
Eileen Chang (1920-1995), who lived in the United States after fleeing Communist China in 1956, was a prominent fiction writer, essayist, and public intellectual. She is the author of The Rice-Sprout Song: A Novel of Modern China and The Rouge of the North, among other works.