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Brief Encounters

50 books in this series
Book cover of Young at the Time by Eileen Chang

Young at the Time

From one of the greatest Chinese authors of the twentieth century, these delicate stories illuminate the most intimate matters of the human heart - now available in English for the very first time.

Since childhood, Ruliang has had the peculiar habit of sketching a certain profile in the margins of his books. He has mapped out this same face, over and over again, without knowing why - until he meets Cythnia. As brief and evocative as sketches themselves, these five stories of lost loves, nostalgia and migration reveal a master of feeling at the peak of her powers.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days