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Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin
Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin. 1959 Penguin reprint, 334 pages. Han Suyin was a Chinese-born author who studied medicine in London. Her love affair with a Times correspondent was the basis for this book, later turned into a movie. She subsequently wrote more novels, essays, and autobiography. According to her Guardian obituary: "Her defence of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, though later recanted, came to overshadow her huge literary talents.[...]Half-Chinese, but striving to be whole Chinese, she was as full of contradictions as her motherland. When the epic of modern China is re-examined she and her works will provide important and readable evidence."
Condition: Good used copy
"To understand, to tolerate, to condone, must be incompatible with the very idea of being in possession of a higher truth, e better explanation of the spiritual life."
Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin. 1959 Penguin reprint, 334 pages. Han Suyin was a Chinese-born author who studied medicine in London. Her love affair with a Times correspondent was the basis for this book, later turned into a movie. She subsequently wrote more novels, essays, and autobiography. According to her Guardian obituary: "Her defence of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, though later recanted, came to overshadow her huge literary talents.[...]Half-Chinese, but striving to be whole Chinese, she was as full of contradictions as her motherland. When the epic of modern China is re-examined she and her works will provide important and readable evidence."
Condition: Good used copy
"To understand, to tolerate, to condone, must be incompatible with the very idea of being in possession of a higher truth, e better explanation of the spiritual life."