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Title Shanghai girls : a novel / Lisa See.
Publisher New York : Random House, [2009]
Copyright ©2009
Description 314 pages ; 25 cm


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 EI-Adult Collection  SEE Nearby on shelf  30626001881628 06-10-23  AVAILABLE
 EI-Adult Collection  SEE  30626001886197 06-21-23  AVAILABLE
Summary In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father's prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives...until after the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides.
Subject Families -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Gambling -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Arranged marriage -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction.
Chinese -- United States -- Fiction.
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Genre Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9780812980530
9781400067114
1400067111