In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. Sometimes the end of a love affair is only the beginning. She is a former features editor at Elle and Mirabella magazines in New York.Ambitious, exotic, and a classic book club read, 'The Piano Teacher' is a combination of 'Tenko' meets 'The Remains of the Day'. Lee was born and raised in Hong Kong and went to boarding school in the United States before attending Harvard College.
"Lee has created the sort of interesting, complex characters, especially in Trudy, that drive a rich and intimate look at what happens to people under extraordinary circumstances." - Booklist As she starts to comprehend the true nature of the world she has entered, and long-buried secrets start to come to light, Claire learns that sometimes the price of survival is love.
At one of its elegant cocktail parties, she meets Will and the attraction is instantaneous - but as their affair strengthens, Claire discovers that Will’s mysterious persona conceals a devastating past. A provincial English newlywed, Claire is charmed by the intoxicating social life of the expatriate community. Ten years later, Claire Pendleton comes to Hong Kong and is hired by the wealthy Chen family as their daughter’s piano teacher. Meanwhile, Trudy remains outside, forced to form perilous alliances with the Japanese - in particular, the evil head of the gendarmerie, whose desperate attempts to locate a collection of priceless Chinese art lead to a series of terrible betrayals. Will is sent to an internment camp, where he and other foreigners struggle daily for survival. But before long their affair is threatened by the invasion of the Japanese as World War II overwhelms their part of the world.
In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a Eurasian socialite. Listed in the Music category on Art In Fiction, The Piano Teacher (2009) is an historical novel by debut author Janice Y.
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