About this title: In 1913, an orphan girl boards a steamship bound for Wuhu in South East China. Left in the hands of her soft-hearted but opium-addicted uncle she is delivered to The Hall of Eternal Splendour which, with its painted faces and troubling cries in the night, seems destined to break her spirit. And yet the girl survives and one day hope appears in the unlikely form of a customs inspector, a modest man resistant to the charms of the corrupt world that surrounds him but not to the innocent girl who stands before him. From the crowded rooms of a small-town brothel, heavy with the smoke of opium ...
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780141029337ISBN:0141029331
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Date Published: 03/04/2008
ISBN-13:9780141029337ISBN:0141029331
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780141029337ISBN:0141029331
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Description: At the age of fourteen, Pan Yuliang, a young orphan girl in the care of an opium-addicted uncle, finds herself in the third-class cabin of a crowded steamship bound for a strange new town. When Pan and her uncle arrive in the city he sells his innocent young niece to 'The Hall of Eternal Splendour, ' where she is destined to live out her life as a prostitute in its smoky backrooms. And yet, three years later, escape appears in the unlikely form of a government inspector who will take Pan as his ... read more
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