PublishedVintage Classics, March 2007 |
ISBN9780099286875 |
FormatSoftcover, 240 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.9cm × 1.5cm |
Stunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century master
Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance- Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages...
First published to a storm of protest, The Painted Veil is a classic story of a woman's spiritual awakening.
