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THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF WOMEN
By: 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 1800βs, 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 Lianβs 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 cloisonnΓ© factory while her in-laws raise her daughter, Ya Chen. It is in Nushu, the womenβs 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 THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF WOMEN
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β’ October 2015
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#2.0
β’ February 2016
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