by Anchee Min · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429754087
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«La Ciutat Prohibida» is the historical novel by Anchee Min, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (368 pages, in Catalan).
The novel follows Orchid, a young woman of impoverished aristocratic origin who at seventeen is chosen as a concubine of the emperor in the last days of the Ch'ing dynasty, when the opium trade with Europe corrodes imperial power. Amid the luxury and rivalries of the Forbidden City, the emperor chooses her to secure the succession. A portrait of the woman who would become the last empress of China, far from the legend that branded her a seductress and murderess.
First installment of the Empress Orchid series; Catalan translation by Mar Albacar Morgo and Lluís Delgado Picó. Work originally published in English as Empress Orchid.
For readers of historical fiction, Asian fiction and book clubs interested in 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.
