The Tent of Orange Mist |
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Author:
| West, Paul |
ISBN: | 978-1-56895-279-6 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1996 |
Publisher: | Cengage Gale
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Imprint: | Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $23.95 |
Book Description:
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A stunning novel of a valiant young girl and her ailing father who struggle through sweeping change in their native China during the Japanese invasion of 1937. Scald Ibis is a remarkable heroine, resourceful, imaginative and determined. After her country's invaders have killed her mother and brother, she is forced to work as a prostitute as her only hope of keeping her father, an eminent scholar, alive. THE TENT OF ORANGE MIST is the story of how Scald and her father lose and find one...
More DescriptionA stunning novel of a valiant young girl and her ailing father who struggle through sweeping change in their native China during the Japanese invasion of 1937. Scald Ibis is a remarkable heroine, resourceful, imaginative and determined. After her country's invaders have killed her mother and brother, she is forced to work as a prostitute as her only hope of keeping her father, an eminent scholar, alive. THE TENT OF ORANGE MIST is the story of how Scald and her father lose and find one another, a tour de force by one of the world's most critically acclaimed writers.