Daughters of Shandong / Eve J. Chung.
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TextPublisher: New York : Berkley, [2024]Description: 1 volume ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 9780593640531
- Zhongguo guo min dang -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Rich people -- Fiction
- Torture -- Fiction
- War victims -- Fiction
- Patriarchy -- Fiction
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949 -- Fiction
- China -- Social conditions -- 1912-1949 -- Fiction
- Taiwan -- History -- 1945- -- Fiction
- Taiwan -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Fiction
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Wasatch County Library First Floor | Fiction | F Chung (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34301002077164 |
"A novel"--Cover.
"In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of [three] girls and spends her days looking after her sisters. ... As the Communist army closes in on their town, the rest of the prosperous household flees, leaving behind the girls and their mother because they view them as useless mouths to feed. Without an Ang male to punish, the land-seizing cadres choose Hai, as the eldest child, to stand trial for her family's crimes. She barely survives their brutality. Realizing the worst is yet to come, the women plan their escape"--