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The Secret Language Of Women
Nina Romano
Wayfarer Trilogy #1
Turner
October 2015
On Sale: September 29, 2015
272 pages
ISBN: 1630269077
EAN: 9781630269074
Kindle: B00X84MKZI
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Historical
Set in China in the late 1800’s, The Secret Language of
Women tells the story of star-crossed lovers, Zhou Bin
Lian, a Eurasian healer, and Giacomo Scimenti, an Italian
sailor, driven apart by the Boxer Rebellion. When
Lian is seventeen years old, she accompanies her Swiss
father, Dr. Gianluca Brasolin, fluent in Italian, to tend
the Italian ambassador, at the Summer Palace of Empress
Dowager, where she meets and falls in love with Giacomo.
Through voyage and adventure, their love intensifies, but
soon is severed by Lian’s dutiful promise as the wife to
another. Forbidden from pursuing her chosen profession as a
healer, and despised because she does not have bound feet,
she is forced to work in a cloisonné factory while her
in-laws raise her daughter, Ya Chen. It is in Nushu, the
women’s secret writing, that she chronicles her life and her
hopes for the future. Rebelling against the life
forced upon her, she empowers herself to act out against the
injustice and becomes the master of her own destiny. But her
quest for freedom comes at a costly price: The life of
someone close to her, lost in a raging typhoon, a grueling
journey to the Yun-kang Caves, and a desperate search for
beauty and love in the midst of brutality.
Wayfarer Trilogy
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