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A Many-Splendored Thing by Han Suyin 1952 HBDJ

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A Many-Splendored Thing by Han Suyin 1952 HBDJ A Many-Splendored Thing by Han Suyin 1952 HBDJ

SYNOPSIS:  439 pages. Han Suyin defiantly straddled two worlds decades before multiculturalism became fashionable. "We must carry ourselves with colossal assurance and say, 'Look at us, the Eurasians!' " the half-Chinese, half-Belgian physician and author whose career swept across continents and historic upheavals wrote in "A Many-Splendored Thing," the 1952 novel that made her an international celebrity. Her strongly autobiographical bestseller about war, cultural identity and love between a half-Chinese physician and a British journalist in Hong Kong spawned the blockbuster 1955 Jennifer Jones-William Holden movie "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing." Its Oscar-winning theme song became a sentimental standard, and a popular television soap opera based on Han's story followed. Han, whose commercial success fueled a prolific career as a writer and unofficial spokeswoman for China during the Cold War years and beyond, died Nov. 2, 2012, of natural causes at her home in Lausanne, Switzerland, said her granddaughter, Karen L. Shepard. She was 95.

Publisher:  An Atlantic Monthy Press Book Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston. November, 1952.

Format: Hardback with dust jacket. NOT an EX LIB.

Condition: Jacket: POOR to ACCEPTABLE. Lots of tears and rubbing. Flaps unclipped with original $3.75 retail showing on front flap. Moisture staining to inside blank flap which bled over onto green cloth boards. Volume has silver foil lettering on spine cover. VOL: ACCEPTABLE. Dark stains to both inside covers, residue of small price label on front inside blank page. Inner pages clean, crisp, and have no other markings, tears, or flaws. Tightly bound. Photos illustrate condition of overall volume.

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