The Red Thread: A Love Story

The Red Thread: A Love Story
ISBN-10
0571206492
ISBN-13
9780571206490
Series
The Red Thread
Category
Shanghai (China)
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
2001-06
Author
Nicholas Jose

Description

An elegant and multi-layered novel, drawing comparisons with Memoirs of a Geisha and The English Patient, The Red Thread is rich, moving and unforgettable. Set in contemporary Shanghai, it is the story of an intense passion between Shen, a Chinese art dealer, and Ruth, a young Australian woman. As they fall in love, Shen finds that their lives are strangely mirrored in a rare Chinese manuscript which is nearly two hundred years old and of which the last two chapters have never been found. When Ruth falls prey to a terminal illness, Shen embarks on a desperate quest for the missing chapters hoping somehow to find a cure for the disease. But time is running out . . .

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