Young at the Time

Name: Young at the Time
Brand: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Price: 18.75 AUD
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By: Eileen Chang

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Paperback | 20 October 2026

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19.6 x 13.0 x 1.5

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Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Eileen Chang, 'a giant of modern Chinese literature' The New York Times, in this breathtaking, newly translated collection of her most masterful stories on love, regret and nostalgia.

From one of the great Chinese authors of the twentieth century, these newly translated stories illuminate the most intimate matters of the human heart

Since childhood, Ruliang has sketched the same face in the margins of his books, tracing its lines without knowing why. Years later, he meets Cynthia - and recognises it at once. As their lives draw together and drift apart, what once seemed like fate begins to feel more uncertain. In these brief, evocative stories, Eileen Chang traces the pull of memory, love and chance.

Includes the stories: Young at the Time, Blossoms Afloat, Flowers Adrift and Those Old Schoolmates They're All Quite Classy Now

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

About the Author

Eileen Chang was born in Shanghai in 1920. She studied literature at the University of Hong Kong but returned to Shanghai in 1941 during the Japanese occupation, where she established her reputation as a literary star. She moved to America in 1955 and died in Los Angeles in 1995.

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