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This was an ambitious first novel by Kate Furnivall, turning her mother’s experiences as a White Russian refugee in China into an amazing, page-turner of a book.
The story revolves around Lydia Ivanova, a teenage girl living in Junchow, China in 1928. Her father has presumably been killed during the Russian revolution and her mother is struggling to make a living giving piano concerts.
China is a land in turmoil. Chiang Kai-shek and the Koumintang army are in a power struggle against the Communist ...more
The story revolves around Lydia Ivanova, a teenage girl living in Junchow, China in 1928. Her father has presumably been killed during the Russian revolution and her mother is struggling to make a living giving piano concerts.
China is a land in turmoil. Chiang Kai-shek and the Koumintang army are in a power struggle against the Communist ...more
I'm not rating this one. I got about fifty pages in and gave up, I was that bored with it. From everything that I've heard and read from other reviewers, this author's work doesn't improve. Pity, so little fiction is set in Asia.
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