Love in a Fallen City Condition:Like New a professor of economics at

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In this edition Peter Carson's moving translations convey Chekhov's subtle blend of comedy

It has won or been shortlisted for more than a dozen awards (including shortlistings for both the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize) and has sold more than a million copies

Love in a Fallen City Condition:Like New a professor of economics atThe works in this volume show Eileen Chang's brilliance in the short story form. Through fascinating evocations of the great cities of Hong Kong and Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s, she provides revealing glimpses of Chinese Life both traditional and modern as she depicts a world of concubines and opium addicts, fast living and family affairs. In the novella Love in a Fallen City, an unlikely couple find true romance as bombs fall on Hong Kong during