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01613aam a2200241 4500 001 8520D430A6F811E1B91BACA46AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120526010135 008 090714s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0143144413 020 $a 9780143144410 040 $d SILO $d SILO 100 1 $a Lee, Janice Y.K. 245 1 $a The Piano Teacher [sound recording]. 260 $a New York : $b Penguin Audio, $c c2009. 300 $a 9 CDs, unabridged. 500 $a Read by Orlagh Cassidy. 520 $a In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their love affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese, with terrible consequences for both of them and for members of their fragile community who will betray one another in the darkest days of the war. Ten years later, Claire Pendleton comes to Hong Kong and is hired by the wealthy Chen family as their daughter's piano teacher. A provincial English newlywed, Claire is seduced by the colony's heady social life. She soon begins an affair...only to discover that her lover's enigmatic demeanor hides a devastating past. As the threads of this engrossing novel intertwine and converge, a landscape of impossible choices emerges--between love and safety, courage and survival, the present, and, above all, the past. 541 $d 20090714. 941 $a 2 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20150619011134.0 952 $l YMPD532 $d 20150321013225.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8520D430A6F811E1B91BACA46AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search