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02955aim a22003975a 4500 001 2B500808A18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161103010209 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 151001s2015 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 $a 1622319613 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 $a 9781622319619 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 $a MWT11429675 040 $a Midwest $d SILO 100 1 $a Curry, Alexandra. 245 14 $a The Courtesan $h [electronic resource] / $c Alexandra Curry. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a [United States] : $b HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books : $c 2015. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 16 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 $a Read by Emily Woo Zeller. 520 $a The year is 1881, the era of China's humiliation at the hands of imperialist Europe. Seven-year-old Jinhua is left alone and unprotected, her life transformed after her mandarin father's summary execution for the crime of speaking the truth. As an orphan, she endures the brutal logic of a brothel-keeper, who puts her to work as a so-called money tree, and she survives the worst of human nature with the friendship and wisdom of the crippled brothel maid. When an elegant but troubled scholar takes Jinhua as his concubine, she leaves both the trauma of brothel life and the comfort of friendship behind and encounters for the first time the tantalizing and elusive notion of 'Great Love.' She travels with her emissary husband to Europe and discovers there the mesmerizing strangeness, irresistible sensualities, and exotic possibilities of fin de sicÌle Vienna, while struggling against the constraints of tradition and her husband's wishes. Sai Jinhua is an altered woman when she returns to a changed and changing China, where a terrible clash of East and West is brewing, and where her western sympathies will ultimately threaten not only her own survival but the survival of those who are most dear to her. The Courtesan is a timeless tale of friendship and sacrifice, temptation and redemption; the story of a woman's journey to discern what is real and abiding, and a book that shines a small light on the large history of China's relations with the West. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 $a Orphans $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Brothels $v Fiction. 651 0 $a China $x History $y 1861-1912 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 gsafd 700 1 $a Zeller, Emily Woo. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11429675 $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/rcb_9781622319619_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20161103011721.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2B500808A18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search