The Lost Daughter of Happiness
- ISBN-10
- 0571207316
- ISBN-13
- 9780571207312
- Category
- Chinese
- Pages
- 276
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Author
- Geling Yan
Description
Narrated in a haunting voice that mulls over painful truths of the past, this is an unflinching, erotic tale of forbidden love in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Fusang is a Chinese girl who is shanghaied from her village and brought to San Francisco, where she enters a seedy underworld.
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