by Anchee Min · Bloomsbury Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747568339
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«Empress Orchid» is the historical fiction novel by Anchee Min, published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Orchid, a seventeen-year-old from an impoverished aristocratic family, enters the Forbidden City as a low-ranking concubine. Amid rituals, jealousy and conspiracies, she competes with thousands of concubines to give the Emperor an heir and manages to seduce him. Her rise coincides with the decline of the Chinese empire, of which she will be the last empress.
First part of the Empress Orchid series, set in Qing dynasty China in the 19th century.
For those who enjoy historical fiction, romance and palace intrigues of imperial China.
Anchee Min is a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. Min has published two memoirs, Red Azalea and The Cooked Seed: A Memoir, and six historical novels. Her fiction emphasizes strong female characters, such as Jiang Qing, the wife of chairman Mao Zedong, and Empress Dowager Cixi, the last ruling empress of China.
