The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
In the sweeping tradition of The English Patient, Janice Y.K. Lee's debut novel is a tale of love and betrayal set in war-torn Hong Kong. In 1942, Englishman Will Truesdale falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese as World War II overwhelms their part of the world. Ten years later, Claire Pendleton comes to Hong Kong to work as a piano teacher and also begins a fateful affair. As the threads of this spellbinding novel intertwine, impossible choices emerge-between love and safety, courage and survival, the present, and above all, the past.
I picked this up at one of the newspaper stands in the Philadelphia airport to read on my flight home and I could have made a better selection, but I could have made a worse one. Definitely not something I'm going to run around singing the praises of, but it wasn't completely awful either. Overall, I liked the way the book jumped back and forth in time and the way all the characters connected, but that was about it.
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