Description from Goodreads
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.My Thoughts on the Book
Honestly, for me, the most interesting part of The Piano Teacher was the setting. The rest of it, such as the plot and the characters, were a bit too predictable and one-dimensional for my taste. The beginning of the book didn't quite help either, as the characters were vapid, and spending their time acting llike privileged and spoiled upper class English expats. Not that all characters are meant to be likeable of course, but the first 100 pages or so made me almost quit reading it.
There might be some people out there who enjoyed the book more than me though.
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