Birdless Summer

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Birdless Summer
Author Han Suyin
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) autobiography, history
Media type Print (book)
Preceded by A Mortal Flower
Followed by My House Has Two Doors

Birdless Summer is a biography by Han Suyin. It covers the years 1938 to 1948, her work as a midwife in Chengtu and then going to London with her husband, who was a military attache there. Also her training as a doctor, the start of the last phase of the Chinese Civil War, in which her husband died fighting for the Kuomintang.