From a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweepsreaders into the heart of the Forbidden City to tell thefascinating story of a young concubine who becomes China’s lastempress. Min introduces the beautiful Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, andweaves an epic of a country girl who seized power throughseduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When China is threatenedby enemies, she alone seems capable of holding the countrytogether.
In this “absorbing companion piece to her novel Becoming MadameMao” (New York Times), readers and reading groups will once againbe transported by Min’s lavish evocation of the Forbidden City inits last days of imperial glory and by her brilliant portrait of aflawed yet utterly compelling woman who survived, and ultimatelydominated, a male world.
【作者简介】
Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she wassent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao'sShanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. Shecame to the United States in 1984 with the help of actress JoanChen. Her memoir, Red Azalea, was named one of the New York TimesNotable Books of 1994 and was an international bestseller, withrights sold in twenty countries. Her novels Becoming Madame Mao andEmpress Orchid were published to critical acclaim and were nationalbestsellers. Her two other novels, Katherine and Wild Ginger, werepublished to wonderful reviews and impressive foreign sales.
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