Half a Lifelong Romance – Eileen Chang, Karen S Kingsbury Free Audiobook

Written by Eileen Chang, Karen S Kingsbury
Read by Emily Woo Zeller
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Original publication date: 1948 (in Chinese), 2014 (English translation)
Audiobook release date: 2016
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Audiobook duration: 15:38:04

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Translated from the Chinese by Karen S. Kingsbury.

From one of twentieth-century China’s greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution comes 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 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.