Name: Shanghai Girls - Lisa See
Brand: Lisa See
Price: 103.68 RON
Availability: InStock

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From the author of the bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love comes a stunning novel about two sisters who leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles. nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A gifted writer . . . explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience.--USA Today n nIn 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father's prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn't be more different: Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America. In Los Angeles they begin a fresh chapter, trying to