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The Courtesan : a novel / Alexandra Curry.

By: Publisher: New York, New York : Dutton, [2015]Description: xi, 378 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780525955139
  • 0525955135
  • 9781785770517
  • 1785770519
  • 9781101984727
  • 1101984724
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3603.U77485 C68 2015
Contents:
Autumn begins -- Art of the bedchamber -- Facing Madam Hong -- Palais Kinsky -- Hall of midsummer dreams -- The courtesan's child.
Summary: "The year is 1881. Seven-year-old Jinhua is left an orphan, alone and unprotected after her Mandarin father's summary execution for the crime of speaking the truth. For seven silver coins, she is sold to a brothel-keeper and subjected to the worst of human nature. Will the private ritual that is her father's legacy and the wise friendship of the crippled brothel maid be enough to sustain her? When an elegant but troubled scholar takes Jinhua as his concubine, she enters the close world of his jealous first wife. Yet it is Jinhua who accompanies him--as Emissary to the foreign devil nations of Prussia, Austro-Hungary, and Russia--on an exotic journey to Vienna"--Amazon.com.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Cagan Crossings Community Library Adult Fiction Adult Fiction Fic Curry A. Available 34210001211908
Books Books Eustis Memorial Library Adult Adult Fiction F CUR 1 Available 650391001598452
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Autumn begins -- Art of the bedchamber -- Facing Madam Hong -- Palais Kinsky -- Hall of midsummer dreams -- The courtesan's child.

"The year is 1881. Seven-year-old Jinhua is left an orphan, alone and unprotected after her Mandarin father's summary execution for the crime of speaking the truth. For seven silver coins, she is sold to a brothel-keeper and subjected to the worst of human nature. Will the private ritual that is her father's legacy and the wise friendship of the crippled brothel maid be enough to sustain her? When an elegant but troubled scholar takes Jinhua as his concubine, she enters the close world of his jealous first wife. Yet it is Jinhua who accompanies him--as Emissary to the foreign devil nations of Prussia, Austro-Hungary, and Russia--on an exotic journey to Vienna"--Amazon.com.

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