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- 2009
- year of publication
- 240
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- vintage_classics
- ISBN-13
- 978-00-9928-687-5
- EAN
- 9780099286875
- Publication date
- 2009-12-03
- Book
- The Painted Veil · 4 editions
The publisher on this edition
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.
