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Title:
The Valley of Amazement
Author:
Tan, Amy author.
Personal Author:
Tan, Amy author.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, c2013.
Physical Description:
xiv, 589 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:
Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her.
Language:
English
Subject Term:
Americans -- China -- Fiction.

Art -- Fiction.

Courtesans -- Fiction.

Family secrets -- Fiction.

Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.

Kidnapping -- Fiction.

Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Shanghai (China) -- Fiction.

San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
ISBN:
9780062107312
Format :
Book

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