Women of the Silk
Format: paperback
ASIN: 13191028
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 278
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
China,
Fiction,
Historical
Women of the Silk is a perfectly enjoyable little book, although it suffers from some flaws which may simply be the result of its being Tsukiyama’s first novel.The book follows its protagonist, Pei, from 1919 until 1938. Her impoverished family gives her to a silk factory at age 8, where she grows u...