Lust, Caution and Other Stories
Translated by Julia Lovell
About
In occupied Shanghai, a young woman is recruited to seduce a powerful collaborator and lead him to an assassin's bullet. The mission requires her to become someone else — alluring, patient, intimate with a man she is supposed to help kill. The closer she gets, the less certain she becomes about where the performance ends and something real begins. Eileen Chang's most famous story is a masterclass in moral ambiguity, accompanied here by four more tales of love, deception, and the impossible choices women face in worlds controlled by men. Stories where every gesture has a double meaning, and the most dangerous thing a spy can do is feel something genuine.
