A Many Splendoured Thing
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1949–1950 Hong Kong, as Mao's Communist revolution reshapes the fate of China, A Many Splendoured Thing chronicles the passionate and doomed love affair between Han Suyin, a Eurasian doctor and widow, and Mark Elliott, a married British war correspondent — a romance that burns all the brighter for the political and social forces conspiring to extinguish it. Han Suyin draws on her own autobiography to present a story of longing, cultural collision, and sacrifice, weaving together the intimate and the epic with lyrical precision and unflinching emotional honesty. A landmark work of mid-twentieth-century literature, the novel argues that love — much like history itself — is rarely triumphant, yet remains the most enduring force in human experience. Han Suyin's prose, shaped by her dual identity as both insider and outsider to Eastern and Western cultures, illuminates the wounds of colonialism, the chaos of war, and the unbearable cost of forbidden desire with rare authority. The book inspired the iconic 1955 Hollywood film and the beloved song Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, yet the source material remains far richer, far darker, and far more searching than its adaptations — leaving the reader to wonder whether love, in a fractured world, was ever truly possible at all.
Author: Han Suyin
Format: Paperback
Genre: Romance
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1949–1950 Hong Kong, as Mao's Communist revolution reshapes the fate of China, A Many Splendoured Thing chronicles the passionate and doomed love affair between Han Suyin, a Eurasian doctor and widow, and Mark Elliott, a married British war correspondent — a romance that burns all the brighter for the political and social forces conspiring to extinguish it. Han Suyin draws on her own autobiography to present a story of longing, cultural collision, and sacrifice, weaving together the intimate and the epic with lyrical precision and unflinching emotional honesty. A landmark work of mid-twentieth-century literature, the novel argues that love — much like history itself — is rarely triumphant, yet remains the most enduring force in human experience. Han Suyin's prose, shaped by her dual identity as both insider and outsider to Eastern and Western cultures, illuminates the wounds of colonialism, the chaos of war, and the unbearable cost of forbidden desire with rare authority. The book inspired the iconic 1955 Hollywood film and the beloved song Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, yet the source material remains far richer, far darker, and far more searching than its adaptations — leaving the reader to wonder whether love, in a fractured world, was ever truly possible at all.