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THE GARDEN OF PERFECT BRIGHTNESS
By: Melissa Addey
The Forbidden City 1
Letterpress Publishing
March 2019
On Sale: March 14, 2019
Featuring: Laura Biondecci; Giuseppe Castiglione; Niuhuru
275 pages
ISBN: 1910940577
EAN: 9781910940570
Kindle: B07PPWCZ1C
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Women's Fiction Historical
The most beautiful garden in the world. The man who built it. The woman who had to leave it. China, 1720s. Giuseppe Castiglione, a promising and ambitious Italian painter, is recruited by the Jesuits to serve the Emperor of China. But his painting style is rejected as inauspicious. Meanwhile, Niuhuru, a grey-eyed, too-tall girl is chosen as a concubine to a minor prince and sent to live in the Garden of Perfect Brightness, where Giuseppe meets her when he is tasked with turning the Garden into a wonderland for the Qianlong Emperor. But as the Garden changes and Niuhuru is swept upwards to ever-greater importance, is something precious being lost? And will either of them ever be able to admit to their true feelings for one another?
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