The Middle Kingdom

✍ Scribed by Barrett, Andrea

• Book ID: 108880247
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 184 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780007396887

✦ Synopsis

A lyrical, moving novel of the choices and confusions that face a married woman whose understanding of herself explodes on first contact with the energies of China and a Chinaman.

Grace Hoffmeier is never quite sure where to invest her energies: in her dying marriage to star scientist Walter or in the possible affairs that flare so startlingly before her like fireworks; in her work or in her home; in things or in people; in the past or in the future.

On an eye-opening trip to a China that has ripped itself apart, yet again, at its very heart in Tiananmen Square, Grace finds -- with guidance from unexpected quarters -- that what you can choose between is not always your choice to make. The real China soon crackles into being before Grace; its fire and light illuminate for her paths old and new, and a new life in a new kingdom.