A Map of Paradise - Softcover

Sledge, Linda Ching

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553378902 ISBN 13: 9780553378900

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1997

Synopsis

Set in nineteenth-century Hawaii, an immigrant saga tells of a married couple, Chinese ex-patriates, who are separated by circumstances, leaving their daughter to grow up without a father. By the critically acclaimed author of Empire of Heaven. Original.

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d author of Empire of Heaven, called by the New York Times "a Chinese Gone With the Wind," now creates a richly told immigrant saga of ninteenth-century Hawaii.

With its green cliffs and silvery waterfalls, Hawaii offers radiant hope to Rulan and Pao An--exiles from Chinese tyranny, immigrants with the will to succeed despite hardship and prejudice and enemies from their homeland.  But this proud couple's hardest struggle will be with their own child--Mulan, called Molly.  Born in Hawaii's sacred hills, Molly grows to despise the old Chinese ways.  Locked in perpetual combat with her new parents, she is drawn into a dangerous love affair with a glamorous but decadent poet, a protege of the king.  And even as the family's fortunes rise, Molly's mother watches in sorrow, fearing that her child will realize too late that happiness lies far closer to home.

Beautifully told, A Map of Par

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0553378902
• ISBN 13: 9780553378900
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 402