Birdless Summer
by Suyin, Han
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- Hardcover
- first
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
G.P.Putnam's Sons, New York, 1968 Library of Congress# 68-25435 Hardbound, First American edition, G+ with G Dj. 347 pages. Dj worn with several small chips and tears on edges and corners. Book is black cloth bound. Spine is bent and edges are lightly rubbed. Book is solid. The events of Chinese history between 1938 and 1948 are vividly reconstructed in the third volume of the author's autobiography.. F. Hardcover.
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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- River Run Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5012
- Title
- Birdless Summer
- Author
- Suyin, Han
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- F
- Publisher
- G.P.Putnam's Sons, New York, 1968 Library of Congress# 68-25435
- Keywords
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY RRB1A
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