Word: suyin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MANY-SPLENDORED THING (366 pp.) - Han Suyin - Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...Hong Kong knew about Han Suyin's love affair with Mark Elliott. They were inseparable, walking the streets of the city and the hills of the island at all hours, meeting openly at his hotel. They made no effort to keep the affair quiet, but in gossip-ridden Hong Kong it would not have helped much if they had. She was a well-known doctor, the Eurasian widow of a Chinese Nationalist general who had been killed fighting the Communists. He was a British newspaper correspondent. She had a small daughter. He had a wife and children...
Monsoon of the Heart. Han Suyin's A Many-Splendored Thing is frankly autobiographical. It makes uncomfortable reading because it so willfully, often tastelessly, exposes the deepest private feelings of its principals. Yet there are occasional moments of passionate feeling that almost give dignity to generally unpleasant revelations. Mark Elliott, who had merely been looking for a mistress, soon found himself swamped by a monsoon of the heart. Said he: "I had wanted something beyond the figments of reality, beyond the specious solidity of this rock-bottom world. A steady, passionate flame. A singlehearted ecstasy...