A great book for a book club read with much to discuss in this tale of a young Chinese girl, Fusang, kidnapped from her homeland and forced in to prostitution in San Francisco. Her beauty and understated charm lead to a wealthy Californian falling in love with her and a violent gangster becoming obsessed with her. A moving and page-turning story.
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Geling Yan traces the lives of two individuals separated by prejudice and mistrust, but bound forever by their passion for one another. Fusang is a Chinese girl shanghaied from her village in China, brought to California and sold into the seedy underworld of prostitution. Soon she falls into an obsessive relationship with a young boy, Chris. But many barriers are laid between the lovers - by Chris' wealthy family, and most menacingly by Fusang's murderous pimp, who bestrides Chinatown with a clutch of daggers at his waist.
The Lost Daughter of Happiness features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Book Club Recommendations, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
The Lost Daughter of Happiness is available in Paperback
The Lost Daughter of Happiness was written by Geling Yan and published by Faber and Faber
The Lost Daughter of Happiness has 276 pages
£8.99
