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Dreams of Joy

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 1/07/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people, despite what her family keeps telling her. How can she trust them, when she has just learned that her parents have lied to her for her whole life, that her mother Pearl is really her aunt and that her real father is a famous artist who has been living in China all these years? Joy arrives in Green Dragon Village, where families live in crowded, windowless huts and eke out a meagre existence from the red soil. And where a handsome young comrade catches her eye...Meanwhile, Pearl returns to China to bring her daughter home - if she can. For Mao has launched his Great Leap Forward, and each passing season brings ever greater hardship to cities and rural communes alike.

'Deep and unforgettable ... one of the best depictions of the true spirit of motherhood you'll ever see in fiction' LA Times 'A saga that presses topical buttons ... there is plenty of high emotion and heartbreak, plus the fascination of its setting' Sunday Times 'Once again, See's research feels impeccable, and she has created an authentic, visually arresting world' Washington Post 'See paints a vivid portrait of communist China. Her rich detail and astonishing research of the time is breathtaking' USA Today

Title: Dreams of Joy
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Contributors: By (author) Lisa See

ISBN 13: 9781408822609
ISBN 10: 1408822601

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 1/07/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification: 813.6 (DC23)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm