內容簡介
內容簡介 張愛玲首部長篇小說,金馬獎名導許鞍華改編拍成電影李昂、南方朔、袁瓊瓊、郝譽翔、張瑞芬、彭樹君、楊佳嫻、駱以軍、鍾文音、蘇偉貞等十大作家重量級推薦 很多年以後,曼楨總還記得那個奇冷的冬天,和世鈞兩人在微明的火光中對坐,手中剝荸薺吃,身上穿著他的破舊絨線衫。他靦腆地遞出特意買的紅寶石戒指,並為她細細地纏上一綹舊絨線。那時的她還不知道,年少甜蜜的愛戀並不久長,而她將用餘生經受一切的哀樂和劫毀……《半生緣》是張愛玲最膾炙人口的作品之一,雋永的愛情故事裡蘊含複雜的人際和闇黑的人性。緣起緣滅,人聚人散,到歷劫歸來才明白,終究半生已辜負,徒留悵惘的遺恨。本書介出自皇冠文化出版出版社《半生緣》Shanghai, 1930s. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. He is determined to resist his family’s efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry her. But dark circumstances—a lustful brother-in-law, a treacherous sister, a family secret—force the two young lovers apart. As Manzhen and Shijun go on their separate paths, they lose track of one another, and their lives become filled with feints and schemes, missed connections and tragic misunderstandings. At every turn, societal expectations seem to thwart their prospects for happiness. Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope—however slim—that they might one day meet again. A glamorous, wrenching tale set against the glittering backdrop of an extraordinary city, Half a Lifelong Romance is a beloved classic from one of the essential writers of twentieth-century China.
作者介紹
作者介紹 Eileen Chang (1920-1995), a novelist, essayist, and screenwriter, was born into an elite family in Shanghai. In 1941, while the city was under Japanese occupation, she began to publish the stories and essays that established her reputation in the literary world. She left China in 1952 to escape the influence of the Communist party, settling in the United States in 1955. She continued to write novels, stories, essays, and screenplays for Hong Kong films. In the 1970s, her works became immensely popular throughout the Chinese-speaking world. Despite her growing fame, Chang grew more and more reclusive, and was found dead in her Los Angeles apartment in 1995. Her works continue to be translated into English. A film adaptation of her novella Lust, Caution, directed by Ang Lee, was released in 2007. Karen S. Kingsbury taught and studied in Sichuan and Taiwan for nearly two decades, and is currently Professor of International Studies at Chatham University, where she teaches East Asian studies and world literature. She lives near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.