Product Description
The Language of Threads: A Novel
Author: Gail Tsukiyama
Format: Hardcover
Continuing the story begun in Women of the Silk, Gail Tsukiyama follows Pei as she leaves the silk house for 1930s Hong Kong, bringing with her a young orphan, Ji Shen. After a first position in a wealthy household ends badly, the pair find warmth in the home of Mrs.
Finch, a British expatriate who treats them as the daughters she never had, until war and the Japanese occupation shatter their peaceful life. Once again Pei must fend for herself, struggling to survive and to hold her makeshift family together in a portrait of women weathering the forces of war and time.
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