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Summary: "In 1931 Shanghai, two Nationalist spies pose as a married couple to investigate a series of brutal murders causing unrest in the city"--OCLC.
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Summary: Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which ...
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Summary: A young boy, one of the Tuvan sheepherding people of Mongolia, begins to doubt the traditional belief that the sky is a sheltering force ...
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Summary: White jazz musician Peter Sloan, nursing his wounded heart in Havana in 1958, feels renewed hope when his lost love Anita arrives in town even ...
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Summary: Wild Ginger, subjected to the abuse of her classmates because of her half-French heritage, becomes a national hero of the Cultural Revolution when an ...
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Summary: Hang, a modern Vietnamese woman, is forced to grow up quickly in her turbulent country, squeezed between traditional gender roles and the rampant corruption ...
Authors : By:Cody Corliss • Special to the Post-Dispatch
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), August 15, 2010 A&E Fourth Edition, 3pp
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'I Curse the River of Time' A novel by Per Petterson Translated by Charlotte Barslund Published by Graywolf, 224 pages, $23 After traveling from Norway to Denmark ...
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