1. The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee
This global bestseller tells the story of British expat Claire Pendelton, who moves to Hong Kong in the 1950s with her husband. After being hired by a rich Chinese couple, the Chens, to give piano lessons to their daughter, she begins an affair with the family driver, Englishman Will Truesdale. The novel flits between this love story and an earlier affair Truesdale had in the '40s, taking the reader through World War II and the Japanese occupation.
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