Loved itthis book it is so good because it shows Chinese culture also around marriage around class around family obligations women's roles you know what women have to do to keep their family together it's fantastic
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Half A Lifelong Romance (2014)
Others: Positive Manzhen is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she meets Shijun, the son of wealthy merchants. Despite family complications, they fall in love and begin to dream of a shared life together - until circumstances force them apart. When they are reunited after a separation of many years, can they start their relationship again? Or is it destined to be the romance of only half a lifetime?
- ISBN:
- 9780141189390
- Length:
- 376 pages
Genres: romance
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