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Jasmine Tea: Eileen Chang (Penguin Archive)

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

 

‘But how sweet a fruit the ‘suppose’ must be, that people will sup and sup on it! A juicy fruit, like a lychee but without the pit, sparkling and light green: a fruit that hides the tart within the sweet.’

In this haunting collection of stories, a young man’s obsession leads to tragedy and a woman’s bitterness poisons a family’s legacy. In delicate, piercing prose, Chang captures a world of quiet cruelties and calamitous desires in pre-revolutionary China.

Author: Chang Eileen
Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9780241752302
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2025

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.

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