The Painter of Shanghai

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Cody Epstein has worked as a journalist in both the US and Asia. She has a Bachelors' degree in English/Asian Studies from Amherst College, a Masters in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, and a MFA in fiction from Columbia. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and two daughters. Klappentext Left in the hands of her opium-addicted uncle! an orphan girl is delivered to The Hall of Eternal Splendour which 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 but not to the innocent girl before him. Zusammenfassung Left in the hands of her opium-addicted uncle, an orphan girl is delivered to The Hall of Eternal Splendour which 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 but not to the innocent girl before him.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jennifer C. Epstein, Jennifer Cody Epstein, Epstein Jennifer Cody
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 03.04.2008
• EAN: 9780141029337
• ISBN: 978-0-14-102933-7
• Seiten: 496
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Historische Romane und Erzählungen; China, 20th Century, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, South China