Empress Orchid
by Min, Anchee
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0618562036
- ISBN 13
- 9780618562039
- Seller
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Winchester, New Hampshire, United States
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Synopsis
Empress Orchid (2004) is a novel by Anchee Min which was first published in Great Britain in 2004. It is written in first person and is a sympathetic account of the life of Empress Dowager Cixi - from her humble beginnings to her rise as the Empress Dowager. Names within the story are different in spelling but retain the same pronunciation - allowing the reader to identify each relevant character to his or her real life counterpart.
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- Bookseller
- Gene The Book Peddler (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018219
- Title
- Empress Orchid
- Author
- Min, Anchee
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition/First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0618562036
- ISBN 13
- 9780618562039
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Place of Publication
- Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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