The Nobel Prize-winning author's perceptive fable of cross-cultural passions in nineteenth-century China In 1850s China, a young girl, Peony, is sold to work as a bondmaid for a rich Jewish family in Kaifeng. Jews have lived for centuries in this region of the country, but by the mid-nineteenth cen
Peony in love a novel: novel
- Book ID
- 104475732
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 200 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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