Full name: All the Flowers in Shanghai: A Novel

Author: Duncan Jepson Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780062081605 0062081608

All the Flowers in Shanghai is Jepson's stunning debut novel. Set in 1930s Shanghai,the Paris of the East, but where following the path of duty still takes precedence over personal desires, a young Chinese woman named Feng finds herself in an arranged marriage to a wealthy businessman. In the enclosed world of her new household-a place of public ceremony and private cruelty-she learns that, above all else, she must bear a male heir. Ruthless and embittered by the life that has been forced on her, Feng seeks revenge by doing the unthinkable. Years later, she must come to a reckoning with the decisions she has made to assure her place in family and society, before the entire country is caught up in the fast-flowing tide of revolution. Similar books: The Concubine's Daughter by Pai Kit Fai Empress by Shan Sa The Last Empress by Anchee Min Heart of Lies by M. L. Malcolm Pearl of China by Anchee Min A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama Empress Orchid by Anchee Min The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min The Red Chamber by Pauline A. Chen Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama The Serpent's Children by Laurence Yep The Help by Kathryn Stockett A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd