![]() This 2009 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Paperback is in Good condition. In this ambitious and moving new novel, Anchee Min brings to life a courageous and passionate woman who loved the country of her childhood and who has been hailed in China as a modern heroine. ![]() And yet, through love and loss, heartbreak and joy, exile and imprisonment, the two women remain intimately entwined. ![]() Willow, despite close ties to Mao's inner circle, is punished for her loyalty to her 'cultural imperialist' friend. But when civil war erupts between the Nationalists and Communists, Pearl's family is forced to flee the country ahead of angry mobs. Moving out into the world together, the two enter the intellectual fray of the times, confide their hopes and dreams, and survive early marriages gone bad. Buck, the Nobel Prize-winning writer and activist, but for now she is just a girl embarrassed by her blonde hair and enchanted by her new Chinese friend. ![]() Pearl is the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries. ![]() Willow is the only child of a destitute family. In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, two young girls bump heads and become thick as thieves. ![]()
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