The Heart SutraAuthor: Eileen CHANG
Publisher: Crown Publishing Company Ltd., a division of Crown Culture Corporation Published Date: 1943 【Synopsis】 The Heart Sutra is the story of a young girl, Xu Xiaohan, who is in love with her father. Xu Xiaohan is twenty years old, beautiful, clever, and arrogant. She attempts to overcome her insecurity by attaching herself to her father. She also despises her mother who is passive and old beyond her years. To show she is indeed worthy of her father’s love, Xiaohan lies, schemes, and manipulates the people around her in order to increase her public image in her father’s eyes. She even fakes attraction to another man who indeed likes her to show her father that she is desirable. Xiaohan’s father, Fengyi, is fully aware of what his daughter is up to. Although he is attracted to his daughter, he knows the impossibility of such a match. Fengyi begins to have an affair with Lingqing (Xiaohan’s classmate) as a sort of replacement for his daughter. Xiaohan is furious with the affair and tries a number of ways to break the affair up. Xiaohan is especially angry with her mother, blaming her mother for not controlling Fengyi. Her mother knows what happened between Fengyi and Xiaohan, but Xiaohan always degrades her, not only in the position of a mother but also of a woman. Her mother then chooses to ignore everything and lives like invisible in the family…… 【About the Author】 Born in 1920, Eileen CHANG displayed her talent of writing with short stories in her twenties. Her fiction is renowned for ironic tone, accurate depiction of human nature, and its setting ── many of her works focus on struggling love affairs that take place in Shanghai, Nangjing, and Hong Kong. As one of the best and most popular modern Chinese novelists, the publication rights of works have been sold to US, UK, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Lithuania, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Brazil and China. In 2007, Ang Lee adpated “Lust, Caution” for a film, which was later nominated for 65th Golden Globe Awards “Best Foreign Film” and for 61st British Academy Film Awards “Best Foreign Film”. |
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