Joss and gold / Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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Married to wealthy, conservative Henry, English literature graduate Li An is torn between the comforting lull of a secure world and the unknown, foreign spaces. The author masterfully evokes the passions and struggles of unforgettable characters across three nations and three decades. Against a backdrop of political turmoil and social changes, the author weaves a poignant fabric from the complex threads of human identity, friendships, and gender relations. Lim's great achievement is to make each of these issues utterly inextricable from the others.