Spilled Water
When her husband dies, Lu Si-yan's mother is encouraged to sell her young daughter into domestic service. Lu Si-yan is just eleven when sold by her uncle. Nearly two years will pass before she can get back home to her mother and brother. In this powerful and compelling novel Sally Grindley...
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When her husband dies, Lu Si-yan's mother is encouraged to sell her young daughter into domestic service. Lu Si-yan is just eleven when sold by her uncle. Nearly two years will pass before she can get back home to her mother and brother. In this powerful and compelling novel Sally Grindley portrays the life of a young girl in China, a young girl whose life is said to be like 'spilled water'. With a brilliant first-person narrative and a powerful description of time and place, this novel is gripping, heart-wrenching and utterly mesmerising.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780747571469 (0747571465)
ASIN: 747571465
Publish date: June 6th 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Set somewhere in the far East. This is the story of Lu SI Yan who comes from a fairly poor family. After some awful events, her Uncle takes charge and takes her to market to be sold as a servant to a rich family. The story gives you her background and her ordeal of being taken away from her family a...
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