A Concubine for the Family (A Chinese Family Saga) by Amy S. Kwei
Requirements: epub/mobi Reader, 1.4MB
Overview: This novel covers a tumultuous era in Chinese history beginning in 1937 and ending in 1941. It also explores the circumstances surrounding the true-life event of my grandmother’s gift of a concubine to my grandfather on his birthday. This is also a story of family solidarity and feminine heroism in times of war and destruction.
In 1937, Purple Jade, the soon-to-be matriarch of the Huang household, contemplates her tiny lotus feet. “No one calls them golden lilies anymore. Now they are only tiny feet and worse than your big feet,” she says to her beloved servant, Orchid. But Purple Jade has other concerns beyond the constant pain in her bound feet: There’s an unsettling influence of American and European “West Ocean Devils”; internal strife between the Nationalists and Communists; and an impending Japanese invasion—they have taken Manchuria already—that threatens Confucian China, a world that will soon disappear forever.
Kwei details Chinese traditions and the fascinating but evanescent world as only someone steeped in the old ways could. An adept stylist and storyteller, Kwei weaves with simplicity this tale of upper-class China in upheaval.
Genre: Historical Fiction
Download Instructions:
http://festyy.com/wCWVOY
http://festyy.com/wCWVOH
