Butterfly by Julie O'Yang

In 1940's, during the Second World War, they met each other on the bending shore of the magic, eternal river Yangtze. She fell in love with the much younger stranger. However, he couldn't love her back, and she couldn't love him if she would have known why he had hunted her down all over China to tell her a dark secret… BUTTERFLY is a haunting love story a la Romeo and Juliet of the Orient. A love that cannot be but a love that will grow old during the most devastating war in history. "A shamelessly original work of art that you can read legally outside China." ￭ New Beijing Voice