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020			_a9780062107312 (hardcover)
020			_a0062107313 (hardcover)
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020			_a0062230190 (international edition)
020			_a9780062305527 (signed edition)
020			_a0062305522 (signed edition)
020			_a9780062107329
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050	0	0	_aPS3570.A48 _bV35 2013
082	0	4	_a813/.54 _223
100	1		_aTan, Amy, _eauthor. _985910
245	1	4	_aThe Valley of Amazement /
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bEcco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, _c[2013]
264		4	_c�2013
300			_axiv, 589 pages ; _c24 cm
505	0		_aHidden 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			_aViolet 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	_aAmericans _zChina _vFiction. _985911
650		0	_aArt _vFiction. _985912
650		0	_aCourtesans _vFiction. _92801
650		0	_aFamily secrets _vFiction. _985913
650		0	_aIdentity (Psychology) _vFiction. _985914
650		0	_aKidnapping _vFiction. _985915
650		0	_aMothers and daughters _vFiction. _985916
651		0	_aShanghai (China) _vFiction. _985917
651		0	_aSan Francisco (Calif.) _vFiction. _985918
655		0	_aHistorical fiction, American. _985919
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2gsafd _985920
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcsh _985920
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