Birdless Summer
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Author | Han Suyin |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | autobiography, history |
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Media type | Print (book) |
Pages | 347 |
Preceded by | A Mortal Flower |
Followed by | My House Has Two Doors |
Birdless Summer is an autobiography by Han Suyin. It covers the years 1938 to 1948, her work as a midwife in Chengtu and then going to London with her husband, who was a military attaché there. Also her training as a doctor, the start of the last phase of the Chinese Civil War, in which her husband died fighting for the Kuomintang.
She gives a vivid picture of the final years of Kuomintang rule in mainland China, and of reactions to the Japanese invasion. She also tells how she came to write her first book, . This was actually a joint work, written from her notes but revised by an established writer.
Categories:
- 1968 non-fiction books
- Autobiographies
- Books about China
- Books by Han Suyin
- Jonathan Cape books
- Writer book stubs
- Chinese history book stubs