Birdless Summer
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Birdless Summer | |
Author | Han Suyin |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | autobiography, history |
Media type | Print (book) |
Preceded by | A Mortal Flower |
Followed by | My House Has Two Doors |
Birdless Summer is a biography by Han Suyin. It covers the years 1938 to 1948, her work as a midwife in Chengtu and then going to London with her husband, who was a military attache there. Also her training as a doctor, the start of the last phase of the Chinese Civil War, in which her husband died fighting for the Kuomintang.