The Lost Daughter of Happiness

Geling Yan
Translated by Cathy Silber

The Lost Daughter of Happiness, from Geling Yan – one of China’s most acclaimed writers – is an erotic and exciting tale of forbidden love.

Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571253562
Date Published
04.02.2010
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Summary

Geling Yan traces the lives of two individuals separated by prejudice and mistrust, but bound forever by their passion for one another. Fusang is a Chinese girl shanghaied from her village in China, brought to California and sold into the seedy underworld of prostitution. Soon she falls into an obsessive relationship with a young boy, Chris. But many barriers are laid between the lovers – by Chris’s wealthy family, and most menacingly by Fusang’s murderous pimp, who bestrides Chinatown with a clutch of daggers at his waist.

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Born in Shanghai to a writer and an actress, Geling Yan began writing in the late 1970s as a war correspondent covering the Sino-Vietnamese border conflicts. Her first novel was published in China in 1985. In 1989, following the massacre at Tiananmen Square, she left China for the United States. Since then, two of her works have been made into…

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