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Little Aunt Crane by Geling Yan
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In the last days of World War II, the Japanese occupation of Manchuria has collapsed. As the Chinese move in, the elders of the Japanese settler village of Sakito decide to preserve their honour by killing all the villagers in an act of mass suicide. Only 16-year-old Tatsuru escapes. But Tatsuru's trial ...Show more
Little Aunt Crane by Geling Yan
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In the last days of the World War II, the Japanese occupation of Manchuria has collapsed. As the Chinese move in, the elders of the Japanese settler village of Sakito decide to preserve their honour by killing all the villagers in an act of mass suicide. Only 16-year-old Tatsuru escapes. But Tatsuru's t ...Show more
The Flowers Of War by Geling Yan
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It's December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for ...Show more
The Lost Daughter of Happiness by Geling Yan
24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
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.
The Secret Talker - A Novel by Geling Yan; Jeremy Tiang (Translator)
35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A NEW YORK TIMES GLOBETROTTING PICK! THE MILLIONS MOST ANTICIPATED A woman reclaims her own story in this taut and wholly original literary tale from one of China's literary superstars. Hongmei is the perfect Chinese wife: beautiful, diligent, passive. Glen is the perfect American husband: intellige ...Show more
The Uninvited by Geling Yan
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Dan is an unemployed factory worker who learns to sneak into state-sponsored banquets so he can eat exquisite gourmet meals free of charge. But the secrets Dan overhears at these events eventually lead him down a twisted, intrigue-laden path. When he becomes privy to a scandal that runs from the depths ...Show more
The Uninvited by Geling Yan
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
This is the fantastical tale of Dan Dong, an unemployed factory worker whose life takes a series of unexpected twists upon his discovery that simply by posing as a journalist he can eat exquisite gourmet meals free of charge at state-sponsored banquets. But the secrets Dan overhears at these events even ...Show more
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