by Han Suyin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586037690
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«Birdless Summer» is the third volume of Han Suyin's autobiography, published by Academy Chicago Pub in paperback (350 pages, in English).
Birdless Summer narrates the years between 1938 and 1948, a period marked by the Japanese invasion and the decline of Chiang Kaishek's power. Han Suyin combines her personal experience with the account of events to offer a vision of China at war and its transformations.
Birdless Summer is the third volume of the series «China: Autobiography, History», originally published in 1968; this edition is from 1985.
For readers of memoirs and historical biography interested in twentieth-century China and the period of the Japanese invasion.
Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou was a Chinese-born Eurasian physician and author better known by her pen name Han Suyin. She wrote in English and French on modern China, set her novels in East and Southeast Asia, and published autobiographical memoirs which covered the span of modern China. These writings gained her a reputation as an ardent and articulate supporter of the Chinese Communist Revolution. She lived in Lausanne, Switzerland, for many years until her death.
