num_pages: 214
description: Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages. First published to a storm of protest, The Painted Veil is a classic story of a woman's spiritual awakening.
language: English
title: The Painted Veil
titlecomplete: The Painted Veil
characters: Walter  Fane, Charlie Townsend, Dorothy Townsend, Kitty Garstin
genres: Fiction, Historical, Asia, British Literature, China, Romance, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 44433
places: England, Hong Kong, China
publisher: Vintage Books