This exhilarating story is the transporting tale of how the sensual, romantic elements of haute Chinese cuisine become the perfect ingredients to lift the troubled soul of a grieving American woman.
An American translator in Beijing is fleeing her father's suffocating love, as well as the pain of her previous life. She joins an archaeological expedition looking for the remains of Peking Man and meets a man who will change her life forever. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
An art expert named Lia Frank is in China to appraise a collection of porcelain that may or not be authentic, and as her task drags on she realizes that she must decide not only about the possibly faked collection but about matters closer to home and closer to her heart.
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