Birdless Summer
by Han Suyin
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0224614711
- ISBN 13
- 9780224614719
- Seller
-
Bucknell, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1968-10-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. No dust jacket and plastic covering otherwise good
Synopsis
Birdless Summer is a biography by Han Suyin. It covers the years 1938 to 1948, her work as a midwife in Chengtu and then going to London with her husband, who was a military attache there. Also her training as a doctor, the start of the last phase of the Chinese Civil War, in which her husband died fighting for the Kuomintang. She gives a vivid picture of the final years of Kuomintang rule in mainland China, and of reactions to the Japanese invasion.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Books LTd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0000270851
- Title
- Birdless Summer
- Author
- Han Suyin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0224614711
- ISBN 13
- 9780224614719
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1968-10-01
- Size
- 2.7979 17.7865 7.1945
- X weight
- 0.6624 kg
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