![]() As the threads of this compelling and engrossing novel intertwine and converge, a landscape of impossible choices emerges – between love and safety, courage and survival, the present and above all, the past. The Piano Teacher depicts a tapestry of life, hope, betrayal, terror, sadness and finally an attempt to reconcile the past with the present not an easy. She soon begins an affair…only to discover that her lover's enigmatic demeanour hides a devastating past. A provincial English newlywed, Claire is seduced by the colony's heady social life. ![]() Ten years later, Claire Pendleton lands in Hong Kong and is hired by the wealthy Chen family as their daughter's piano teacher. But their love affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese, with terrible consequences for both of them, and for members of their fragile community who will betray each other in the darkest days of the war. A former editor at Elle and Mirabella magazines in New York, she currently lives in Hong Kong with her husband and four children. ![]() ![]() Sometimes the end of a love affair is only the beginning… In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. Lee was born and raised in Hong Kong and graduated from Harvard University. Ambitious, exotic, and a classic book club read, 'The Piano Teacher' is a combination of 'Tenko' meets 'The Remains of the Day'. ![]()
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