Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels

Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels

Across two critically acclaimed linked novels, now together in this eBook bundle, Lisa See unfolds a captivating saga of the bonds between womenâ€”mothers and daughters, sisters and friendsâ€”while illuminating the events of Chinaâ€™s tumultuous history.
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SHANGHAI GIRLS
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â€œAs in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love, [See] has . . . created ordinary women who, through willfulness and resiliency, accomplish extraordinary things.â€â€”Miami Herald
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In 1937 Shanghaiâ€”the Paris of Asiaâ€”twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to suitors from Los Angeles. As Pearl and May set out from the Chinese countryside to the shores of America, they face impossible choices and confront a life-changing secret, but through it all the two sisters hold fast to who they areâ€”Shanghai girls.
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DREAMS OF JOY
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â€œAstonishing . . . a story with characters who enter a readerâ€™s life, take up residence, and illuminate the myriad decisions and stories that make up human history.â€â€”Los Angeles Times
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Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, Pearlâ€™s nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy, runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth fatherâ€”an artist with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the Communist regime. Terrified for Joyâ€™s safety, Pearl returns to Shanghai, determined to save her daughter. Yet even as Joyâ€™s and Pearlâ€™s journeys converge, one of the most tragic episodes in Chinaâ€™s history threatens their very lives.
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Praise for Lisa See
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â€œExplores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience.â€â€”USA Today, on Shanghai Girls
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â€œAs compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey.â€â€”The Denver Post, on Shanghai Girls
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â€œSee is a gifted historical novelist. . . . The real love story, the one thatâ€™s artfully shown, is between mother and daughter, and aunt and daughter.â€â€”San Francisco Chronicle, on Dreams of Joy
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â€œSeeâ€™s research feels impeccable, and she has created an authentic, visually arresting world.â€â€”The Washington Post, on Dreams of Joy

Country	USA
Author	Lisa See
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780812985474
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Random House
Manufacturer	Random House
NumberOfPages	760
PublicationDate	2013-08-26
Publisher	Random House
ReleaseDate	2013-08-26
Studio	Random House

Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels

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