Books like Lust, Caution
In occupied Shanghai, Wong Chia-chi, a young student actress, is drawn into a plot to seduce and assassinate Mr Yee, a collaborator in the puppet government.
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Love in a Fallen City
Stories of love and money in Shanghai and Hong Kong in the 1940s; in the title novella, a divorced woman goes to Hong Kong to win a rich playboy, and the Japanese attack.
Half a Lifelong Romance
Shen Shijun, a young engineer in 1930s Shanghai, falls for Gu Manzhen, a colleague, and over the years their love is pulled apart by family and circumstance.
The Heretic of Soana
A young priest in the mountains above Lake Lugano is sent to deal with a family of outcasts living in sin on the slopes of Monte Generoso, and is undone by the eldest daughter.
Until August
Every August, on the anniversary of her mother's death, Ana Magdalena Bach takes the ferry to the island where her mother is buried, and one year she spends the night with a stranger.
Desire Under the Elms
A play: on a stony New England farm in 1850, Ephraim Cabot, seventy-five, brings home a young third wife, Abbie, to the fury of his son Eben, who believes the farm is his.
Chéri
Léa de Lonval, a celebrated courtesan nearing fifty, has kept Chéri, the beautiful son of an old friend, as her lover for six years, and his mother has arranged for him to marry a young heiress.
Savushun
In Shiraz during the Second World War, with foreign armies occupying Iran, Zari watches her husband Yusof, a landowner, refuse to sell his grain to them.
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Kyoto fisherman's daughter sold into the Gion geisha houses in 1929 narrates the long apprenticeship and the long war that together teach her what a woman of the flower-and-willow world is for.
Red Sorghum
In Northeast Gaomi Township in the late 1930s, the narrator tells the story of his grandmother, his grandfather the bandit and the family's sorghum wine distillery, as the Japanese invade.
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China
The complete fiction of Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature, from A Madman's Diary to the story of Ah-Q, a village labourer who turns every humiliation into a victory.
Moon Tiger
Claudia Hampton, a popular historian dying in a London hospital, decides to write a history of the world and of herself, and comes back to her wartime love affair in Egypt.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Katharina Blum, a quiet housekeeper, spends a carnival night with a young man the police are hunting, and a tabloid newspaper turns her life into a story.