EMPRESS ORCHID by Anchee Min ( 9780747568339 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

EMPRESS ORCHID

By:

Anchee Min

Format:

Paperback

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£12.99

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£9.48

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ISBN 10:

0747568332

ISBN 13:

9780747568339

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Publisher:

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

Pub. date:

3 January, 2005

Pages:

352

Description:

An erotic story of Imperial China from the author of "Red Azalea" and "Becoming Madame Mao".

Synopsis:

To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine she enters the erotically charged and ritualised Forbidden City. But beneath its immaculate facade lie whispers of murders and ghosts, and the thousands of concubines will stoop to any lengths to bear the Emperor's son. Orchid trains herself in the art of pleasuring a man, bribes her way into the royal bed, and seduces the monarch, drawing the attention of dangerous foes. Little does she know that China will collapse around her, and that she will be its last Empress.

Publication:

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Prizes:

Short-listed for British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2006

Returns:

Returnable

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