Издательство: Random House, 2019
Переплёт: Мягкая обложка, 228 страниц
Серия: Vintage Classics Library
Категория: Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке
ISBN: 978-0-09-928687-5
Формат: 200x130x20 мм, 274 г
📓 Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages...
First published to a storm of protest, The Painted Veil is a classic story of a woman's spiritual awakening.