The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee

IN 1942, Will Truesdale an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong falls passionately in love with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But, their affair is threatened by the invasion of the Japanese as World War II overwhelms their lives.

Ten year later, Claire Pendleton comes to Hong Kong and is hired by the wealthy Chen family as their daughter's piano teacher. Seduced by the colony's heady social life, she soon begins an affair, only to discover that her lover is hiding a devastating past. As the threads of this spellbound novel intertwine, impossible choices emerge between love and safety, courage and survival, the present and above all, the past.