![]() ![]() That short story eventually served as the basis of the first chapter. Lee read books and researched newspaper articles of the WWII era, focusing on the minutiae of everyday life from transportation logistics to hairstyles. ![]() The book originally began as a short story set in the 1970s, but Lee began reading about World War II, and the story evolved from there. In short, Lee’s fiction is so cinematic that one is surprised that the movie rights have not been snapped up. The Piano Teacher (not to be confused with another book of that title, the most famous one by 2004 Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek) also has echoes of Lust, Caution, the 2007 Ang Lee film about sex and espionage in WWII Hong Kong. While that analogy might be a lot for a first-time novelist to live up to, Lee’s tale does share with Ian McEwan’s bestseller a WWII setting and a key plot point of a character’s tragic mistake. Lee’s debut novel The Piano Teacher contains a review blurb that compares the work to Atonement. ![]()
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