The Rain in Leiden

Bad Romance Originals · 🤍 528

Leiden, 1936. One of the first Chinese women to study in the Netherlands falls for the bookbinder who repairs her dictionaries, as Europe darkens around them. Ninety years later her great-granddaughter, cataloguing the estate, finds letters bound into a book's spine — and retraces them with the help of an infuriatingly precise Dutch archivist. Two romances, alternating chapter by chapter, rhyming across a century: one heading into the war, one deciding whether history repeats or gets rewritten.

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