Lust, Caution - Eileen Chang Except things don’t go as

Except things don’t go as planned: they end up working on an industrial chicken farm and living on a campsite

Translator: Katherine Woods

First published in 1924 to international acclaim when Neruda was just nineteen

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a traditional Tokyo neighborhood of narrow streets

Lust, Caution - Eileen Chang Except things don’t go asIn 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things are not always what they seem in wartime. Jiazhis life is a front. A patriotic student radical, her mission is to seduce a powerful employee of the occupying government and lead him to the assassins bullet. Yet as she waits for him to arrive at their liaison, Jiazhi begins to