斷鴻零雁記
By 蘇曼殊
Cover: Geese and Reeds (蘆雁図), hanging scroll, ink on paper by Unidentified Japanese painter (14th century) · Wikimedia Commons · CC0
A young monk of mixed Chinese and Japanese blood remembers his lost childhood in Japan and the love that cannot be fulfilled with the girl Jingzi. Su Manshu's first-person romance of 1912 is told in a lyrical literary prose. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.