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ocn858872564 |
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OCoLC |
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20190418165551.0 |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2013474278 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780062107312 (hardcover) |
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0062107313 (hardcover) |
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9780062230195 (international edition) |
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0062230190 (international edition) |
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9780062305527 (signed edition) |
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0062305522 (signed edition) |
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9780062107329 |
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0062107321 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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UPZ |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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rda |
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UPZ |
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n-us-ca |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PS3570.A48 |
| Item number |
V35 2013 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
813/.54 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Tan, Amy, |
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author. |
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85910 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The Valley of Amazement / |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York, NY : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
[2013] |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
�2013 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiv, 589 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Hidden jade path -- The new republic -- The hall of tranquility -- Etiquette for beauties of the boudoir -- The memory of desire -- A singing sparrow -- A blue disease -- The two Mrs. Ivorys -- Quicksand years -- Moon Pond village -- Heaven Mountain -- The valley of amazement -- Fata morgana -- Shanghailanders -- The city at the end of the sea. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who has honed her ability to become any man's fantasy since her start as a 'Virgin Courtesan' at the age of twelve, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her. Violet is the privileged daughter of the American madam of the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separated from her mother in a cruel act of chicanery and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Half-Chinese and half-American, she grapples with her place in the worlds of East and West, until she is able to merge her two halves, empowering her to become a shrewd courtesan who excels in the business of seduction and illusion, though she still struggles to understand who she is. Back in 1897 San Francisco, Violet's mother, Lucia, chooses a disastrous course as a sixteen-year-old, when her infatuation with a Chinese painter compels her to leave her home for Shanghai. Shocked by her lover's adherence to Chinese traditions, she is unable to change him, despite her unending American ingenuity. Fueled by betrayals, both women refuse to submit to fate and societal expectations, persisting in their quests to recover what was taken from them: respect; a secure future; and, most poignantly, love from their parents, lovers, and children. To reclaim their lives, they take separate journeys, to a backwater hamlet in China, the wealthy environs of the Hudson River Valley, and, ultimately, the unknown areas of their hearts, where they discover what remains after their many failings to love and be loved. Spanning more than forty years and two continents, this novel transports readers from the collapse of China's last imperial dynasty to the beginning of the Republic and recaptures the lost world of old Shanghai through the inner workings of courtesan houses and the lives of the foreigners living in the International Settlement, both erased by World War II. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Americans |
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China |
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Fiction. |
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Art |
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Fiction. |
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Courtesans |
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Fiction. |
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Family secrets |
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Fiction. |
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Identity (Psychology) |
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Fiction. |
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Kidnapping |
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Fiction. |
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Mothers and daughters |
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Fiction. |
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Shanghai (China) |
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Fiction. |
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85917 |
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San Francisco (Calif.) |
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Fiction. |
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85918 |
| 655 #0 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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Historical fiction, American. |
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85919 |
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Historical fiction. |
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gsafd |
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85920 |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Historical fiction. |
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lcsh |
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85920 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
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F |