Description
Product ID: | 9780099569626 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Flowers of War |
Authors: | Author: Geling Yan, Nicky Harman |
Page Count: | 256 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and Japan. Full of wonderful characters, from the austere priest to the irreverent prostitutes, it is a story about how war upsets all prejudices and how love can flourish amidst death. December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. |
Imprint Name: | Vintage |
Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2013-01-03 |