The World of Suzie Wong, Richard WongPenguin Books reintroduces the timeless story of the love affair between a British artist and a Chinese prostitute. Robert is t he only resident of the Nam Kok hotel not renting his room by the hour when he meets Suzie at the bar. She becomes his muse and they fall in love. But even in Hong Kong, where many white expatriates have Chinese mistresses, their romance could jeopardize the things they each hold dear. Set in the mid 1950s, The World of Suzie

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entrepreneur and self-proclaimed 'lazy workaholic' Grace Beverley confronts this unrealistic and unnecessary split

Anna is a typical Virgo – she loves being organized

' In his much-anticipated memoir

an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course

the Ripper's victims get a voice

despite Will’s exhaustive efforts to put him away

compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise

Shimamura is tired of the bustling city

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

To protect the Unwritten Wing and stave off the insidious reach of Malphas

Veera—with whom Robert once had a secret affair—and Robert’s young trophy wife