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The Lost Daughter of Happiness (Paperback)
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The Lost Daughter of Happiness (Paperback)

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Paperback 288 Pages / Published: 04/02/2010
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Synopsis
Geling Yan traces the lives of two individuals separated by prejudice and mistrust, but bound forever by their passion for one another. Fusang is a Chinese girl shanghaied from her village in China, brought to California and sold into the seedy underworld of prostitution. Soon she falls into an obsessive relationship with a young boy, Chris. But many barriers are laid between the lovers - by Chris's wealthy family, and most menacingly by Fusang's murderous pimp, who bestrides Chinatown with a clutch of daggers at his waist.

Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571253562
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 230 g
Dimensions: 197 x 126 x 17 mm
Edition: Main

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“Absorbing and moving despite the violence.”

Geling Yan's novel tells the story of Fusang, a betrothed young girl kidnapped from her home in China and sold into prostitution in the emerging immigrant community in San Francisco.

Fusang's owner is the... More

Paperback edition
17th November 2009
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“The Lost Daughter of Happiness”

This book is a tour de force. It will make a wonderful addition to the list for any book circle and its universal appeal will attract readers male as well as female.
It is a book about an enduring love that loses its... More

Paperback edition
17th November 2009
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“Romantic but shocking - a lovely book”

This is a complex, yet somehow simple, story of forbidden love which crosses the cultural divide between the propriety of 1860s San Fransisco and the seedy world of Chinese prostitution in the city. Fusang and Chris... More

Paperback edition
9th December 2009
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