Peking
โ Anthony Grey
๐ Fiction
๐
2011;1988
๐ Pan
๐ English
โ 469 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Peking picnic
โ Scribed by Bridge, Ann;
- Publisher
- Daunt Books
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- London
- ISBN
- 1907970606
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โฆ Synopsis
Peking in the 1930s ย an ancient city of warlords, bordered by brutal civil war, and a place of exquisite beauty. Laura Leroy, whose marriage to a diplomat has taken her far from home, lives divided between England and the social farce of diplomatic life in Peking. When a group of expats venture out on an expedition to the great monastery at Chieh T'ai Ssu they find themselves intoxicated by the extraordinary flowering beauty of Chinese landscape in spring. Laura is drawn to Vinstead, a man who reminds her of the green fields and spires she has left behind in Oxford. But far from the pleasure.
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