New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan brings us her latest novel: a sweeping, evocative epic of two women’s intertwined fates and their search for identity from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village
Shanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the privileged daughter of the American madam of the city’s most exclusive courtesan house. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separated from her mother in a cruel act of chicanery and forced to become a “virgin courtesan.” Half-Chinese and half-American, Violet grapples with her place in the worlds of East and West until she is able to merge her two halves, empowering her to become a shrewd courtesan who excels in the business of seduction and illusion, though she still struggles to understand who she is.
Back in 1897 San Francisco, Violet’s mother, Lucia, chooses a disastrous course as a sixteen-year-old, when her infatuation with a Chinese painter compels.
Book Details
By: Tan, Amy
Price: $32.82 AUD
Publisher :ECCO
Format : Hardcover /00589 pages
Categories :Historical – General ,Sagas ,Family Life
Published: 11November2013
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ISBN13 : 9780062107312
Content Language:English
Physical Info : 150 cms H * 910 cms L * 0.17 cms W
Categories : Historical – General ,Sagas ,Family Life
Type of product : Hardcover / 00589 pages
Book Language : English