Early Twentieth Century Shanghai novel--Help

clownis | 04:13 Sun 08th Apr 2007 | Arts & Literature

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Does anyone know the name of a novel set in Shanghai around the early 1900's. The novel includes a description of a mansion on a hill overlooking the sea--the woman has a lover and maybe two sons?

I cannot recall what this book is. Could it be Maugham? It is NOT the chapter from Joy Luck Club which seems like what I describe.

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sherlockian

Is it perhaps Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans?

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I did go through an Ishiguro stage when I recollect reading this book. The summary does not sound like what I recall and my local library does not have the book--I would have ordered it through them. I will try to get it and see. Thanks

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Gravitate, that "answer" was just an excuse to let everyone know you were going to Shanghai. But thanks.

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