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Also by Mingmei Yip:

The Witch's Market, December 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Secret of a Thousand Beauties, December 2014
Paperback / e-Book
The Nine Fold Heaven, July 2013
Trade Size / e-Book
Skeleton Women, June 2012
Trade Size / e-Book
Song Of The Silk Road, April 2011
Trade Size
Petals From The Sky, March 2010
Paperback
Peach Blossom Pavilion, June 2008
Paperback
Chinese Children's Favorite Stories, January 2005
Hardcover / e-Book

PETALS FROM THE SKY
By: Mingmei Yip

March 2010
On Sale: March 1, 2010
352 pages
ISBN: 075824181X
EAN: 9780758241818
Paperback
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Romance Contemporary

From the acclaimed author of Peach Blossom Pavilion comes a lush and lyrical novel of East and West—and of one young woman’s search for her heart’s true calling…

When twenty-year-old Meng Ning declares that she wants to be a Buddhist nun, her mother is aghast. In her eyes, a nun’s life means only deprivation—“no freedom, no love, no meat.” But to Meng Ning, it means the chance to control her own destiny, and to live in an oasis of music, art, and poetry far from her parents’ unhappy union.

With an enigmatic nun known as Yi Kong, “Depending on Emptiness,” as her mentor, Meng Ning spends the next ten years studying abroad, disdaining men, and preparing to enter the nunnery. Then, a fire breaks out at her Buddhist retreat, and Meng Ning is carried to safety by Michael Fuller, a young American doctor. The unprecedented physical contact stirs her curiosity. And as their tentative friendship grows intimate, Meng Ning realizes she must choose between the sensual and the spiritual life.

From the austere beauty of China’s Buddhist temples to the whirlwind of Manhattan’s social elite, and the brilliant bustle of Paris and Hong Kong, here is a novel of joy and heartbreak—and of the surprising paths that lead us where we most need to be.