Fire and rain

Title: Fire and Rain

Writer: Yao

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789024520855

Condition: Good

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Condition descriptions:
- As New: Hardly any signs of use, almost as new.
- Good: May show minor signs of use, such as some discoloration or a name on the endpapers, but generally no underlining or notes in the text.
- Fair: Book in fair condition. May show signs of use, such as discoloration, reading creases in spine, underlinings, notes, light soiling at edges, dog-ears, or a crooked spine.
- New: Book is new.

Description:
Fire and Rain is the dramatic story of a family feud. Young Yiping is torn between conflicting feelings for her father, a tyrannical former general. He has abandoned her and her mother and started a new family, living in luxury, while Yiping and her mother are dirt poor. When she is rejected by her father for the umpteenth time, Yiping decides to take revenge on her father's new family. And she does not realize that in doing so she will also plunge herself, her mother and the love of her life into misery.

'For Chinese people all over the world, Chiung Yao has been the most beloved writer for years. Millions of copies of each of her novels have been sold and many films and television series have been made based on her books. Western readers will also feel addressed: Chiung Yao's books may be set in a different culture, but the human emotions she describes are universal and recognizable to us all.

Fire and Rain is Chiung Yao's forty-fifth novel and the first to appear in a Dutch translation. In Chinese alone, this book sold 75 million copies.