The language of threads

By Tsukiyama, Gail

Publishers Summary:
After the Japanese invade China, a woman in the silk trade flees her village, taking along an orphaned "silk sister." The two find refuge in Hong Kong, only to lose everything when World War II breaks out and the Japanese come again.

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ISBN
978-0-31220-376-4
Publisher
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.


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Library Journal

Reviewed on July 1, 1999

The author of several novels (e.g., Night of Many Dreams), Tsukiyama here offers a sequel to her 1991 work, Women of the Silk, which introduced readers to a young Chinese girl working in a silk factory. It is 1938, and Pei, now 28 years old, has traveled to Hong Kong, where she finds herself working as a domestic servant and caring for a young girl named Ji Shen. Though the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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