The Concubine's Daughter

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¦m an epic, heart-wrenching story of a mother and daughter's journey to their destiny Lotiu feet. He would give hi.i daughter the dciinty feet of a courte.ian. Thu would enbance her beauty and her price, making herfuture .ihine. He Emiled to him.ielf pouring fre.th tea. And it would <itop her from running away When the young concubine of an old farmer in rural China gives birth to a daughter and calls her Li-Xia, or "Beautiful One," the child seems destined to become a concubine herself. But Li-Xia refuses to submit to her fate, outwitting her father's orders to bind her feet and escaping his silk farm with an English sea captain. Li takes her first steps toward fulfilling her mother's dream ol becoming a scholar -but her final triumph must be left to her daughter, Siu-Sing, "Little Star," in a journey that will take her from remote mountain refuges to the perils of Hong Kong on the eve of World War II. Drawing onyears of immersion in traditional Chinese culture, medicine, and... Tovább

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¦m an epic, heart-wrenching story of a mother and daughter's journey to their destiny Lotiu feet. He would give hi.i daughter the dciinty feet of a courte.ian. Thu would enbance her beauty and her price, making herfuture .ihine. He Emiled to him.ielf pouring fre.th tea. And it would <itop her from running away When the young concubine of an old farmer in rural China gives birth to a daughter and calls her Li-Xia, or "Beautiful One," the child seems destined to become a concubine herself. But Li-Xia refuses to submit to her fate, outwitting her father's orders to bind her feet and escaping his silk farm with an English sea captain. Li takes her first steps toward fulfilling her mother's dream ol becoming a scholar -but her final triumph must be left to her daughter, Siu-Sing, "Little Star," in a journey that will take her from remote mountain refuges to the perils of Hong Kong on the eve of World War II. Drawing onyears of immersion in traditional Chinese culture, medicine, and martial arts, PAI KIT FAI, who worked as a merchant marine, writer, and creative director for an advertising agency before marrying into one of Hong Kong's founding Eurasian families, delivers a mesmerizing tale of 4Xr passión and courage in this debut növel.

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