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Sto caricando le informazioni... Liaison: the Gripping Real Story of the Diplomat Spy and the Chinese Opera Stardi Joyce Wadler
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I really wish the book had included more of the diplomatic / spy elements of this story and less of the mechanics of passing even while in bed. A page-turner of a story, though. ( ) If I didn't know from the start that it is a true story, I would have thought it quite a daring piece of fiction. My admiration goes to the author, Joyce Wadler, who, as a journalist, does great credit to her profession - she meticulously unearthed all the unfathomable facts of this story and then tried to make sense of the bizarre and outlandish behavior of the two real protagonists. This book tells how a low-level French embassy worker in Beijing met and fell in love with an opera singer he believed to be a woman, but who actually was a man. Over the years, the diplomat, Bernard Bouriscot, ends up passing diplomatic documents to the Chinese authorities so he can continue his affair with the singer. Eventually they are caught and end up serving brief prison terms. Wadler's book weaves an intriguing tale of obsession but ultimately doesn't answer why Bouriscot developed such a strong bond with Shi Pei Pu. The question of how he could have been misled about his lover's gender is dangled before the reader incessantly. An answer of sorts is given in the final pages but it doesn't seem fully plausible. The story is told mainly from Bouriscot's perspective -- he cooperated with the author and shared in the royalties. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"It was a scandal that provoked shock and disbelief - and inspired a long-running Broadway play. But the convicted spy at the center of the storm never told his side of the story...until now." "When Bernard Boursicot, an innocent and charming twenty-year-old yearning for adventure and romance, was posted to the French embassy in Beijing, he met and soon fell in love with a mysterious, seductive opera singer named Shi Pei Pu. Over the course of the next eighteen years, the two lived out a passionate and dangerous liaison that produced a son, drew them into espionage, and ultimately landed them both in a French prison. The whole time, Boursicot was unaware that Pei Pu, the love of his life and his longtime sexual partner, was a man." "How could this happen? How could he not know? These questions intrigued the world, making Boursicot the subject of incredulity and ridicule, and ultimately inspired an immensely popular Broadway hit, M Butterfly. But the speculation could not begin to rival the astonishing real story." "To uncover the facts behind this sensational case, journalist Joyce Wadler spent three years researching court documents and psychiatrists' files, interviewing relatives, friends, and co-workers of the pair, including a former prime minister of France. Most important of all, she persuaded Boursicot, who had refused to discuss his story since his arrest, to break his silence." "For the first time Ms. Wadler explains - in explicit detail - exactly how the tantalizing creature described in international headlines as "the Chinese Mata Hari" was able to deceive Boursicot while playing the greatest role of her...his'...life." "Even richer and more compelling than the fiction it inspired, Liaison is a true story of the inseparability of love and illusion."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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