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Secret of a Thousand Beauties
Mingmei Yip
Kensington
December 2014
On Sale: November 25, 2014
Featuring: Spring Swallow; Aunt Peony
320 pages
ISBN: 1617733210
EAN: 9781617733215
Kindle: B00KFP7Y7C
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Women's Fiction | Women's Fiction Historical | Fiction
Set against the vibrant and intrigue-laden backdrop of 1930s
China, Mingmei Yip's enthralling novel explores one woman's
defiant pursuit of independence.
Spring Swallow was promised in marriage while still in her
mother's belly. When the groom dies before a wedding can
take place, seventeen-year-old Spring Swallow is ordered to
become a ghost bride to appease his spirit. Under her
in-laws' protection, she will be little more than a servant,
unable to know real love or bear children. Refusing to
accept her fate as a "bad-luck woman," Spring Swallow flees
on her wedding day.
In the city of Soochow, Spring Swallow joins a community of
renowned embroiderers. The women work for Aunty Peony, whose
exquisite stitching once earned her the Emperor's love. But
when Aunty Peony agrees to replicate a famous painting--a
lucrative assignment that will take a year to
complete--betrayal and jealousy emerges within the group.
Spring Swallow becomes entangled in each woman's story of
heartbreak, even while she embarks on a dangerous affair
with a young revolutionary. On a journey that leads from the
remote hillsides around Soochow to cosmopolitan Peking,
Spring Swallow draws on the secret techniques learned from
Aunty Peony and her own indomitable strength, determined to
forge a life that is truly her own.
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