Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, this beautifully written character study is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive.

The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane, who marries for money rather than love. When her husband, a quiet doctor, discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to a remote region of China ravaged by a cholera epidemic. There, stripped

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Charley Mason's trip to Paris is haunted by his meeting with Lydia, a wayward girl whose family was displaced by the Russian Revolution and who "pines for a man half a world away, a dope dealer and murderer whose sins Lydia seeks to absolve through her own self-destruction."--Cover.