Author: MIN, ANCHEE
Title: Empress Orchid
Description: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, UK, 2005. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. 9780747568339 352 pages. Available Now. Book Description: 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. : Review: ‘A stirring, exotic novel that is a treat for the senses and the intellect alike' -- Los Angeles Times: ‘A wild, passionate, fearless American writer' -- New York Times: ‘Empress Orchid is strong on both sexual chicanery and violent conspiracy ... fascinating' -- Guardian: ‘Engrossing ... enhanced by Min's imaginative power ... Like all good novelists, she implies as much as she says' -- Glasgow Herald : From the Publisher: An enthralling, erotic story of Imperial China from the author of Red Azalea and Becoming Madame Mao Size: 12.8 x 2.3 x 19.7 cm. 352 pages. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 4. Category: Fiction; Paperback; ISBN: 0747568332. ISBN/EAN: 9780747568339. Inventory No: F246-1103.

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