The Painted Veil Condition:Well Read Told in her inimitable trademark

Told in her inimitable trademark style

cultural identity and queer sexuality

will please cooks of all kinds

Set around the turn of the last millennium

The Painted Veil Condition:Well Read Told in her inimitable trademarkKitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages. First published to a storm of protest, The Painted Veil is a