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Book Review of The Painted Veil (Vintage International)

The Painted Veil (Vintage International)
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Very different from the movie, but interesting in a different way.
This is from the Amazon review: Shallow, poorly educated Kitty marries the passionate and intellectual Walter Fane and has an affair with a career politician, Charles Townsend, assistant colonial secretary of Hong Kong. When Walter discovers the relationship, he compels Kitty to accompany him to a cholera-infested region of mainland China, where she finds limited happiness working with children at a convent.