The Secret Mandarin
1800s: A disgraced woman. A faraway land. A forbidden love
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1800s: A disgraced woman. A faraway land. A forbidden love
1990s: This novel really is quite a guide around the city of Shanghai – its architecture food and the banks of the river.
Early 1900s: Torn from her family. Destined to become the most desired courtesan in China.
2008 and before: Sweeping between China past and present, THE INCARNATIONS illuminates the cyclical nature of history, and shows how man is condemned to repeat…
1940s, 1950s: Exotic Hong Kong takes center stage in this sumptuous novel, set in the 1940s and ’50s.