Beschreibung
1952, French Indochina. Half-Vietnamese Nicole has always been living in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Sylvie. When Sylvie is handed control of the family silk business, Nicole is given an abandoned silk shop in the Vietnamese quarter of Hanoi. Here, for the first time, Nicole is awakened to the corruption of colonial rule - and her own family's involvement shocks her to the core... War, secrets and an unbearable choice.
Produktsicherheitsverordnung
Hersteller:
Penguin Books
tkleber@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk
80 Strand
GB LONDON, WC2R 0RL
Importeur:
Petersen Buchimport GmbH
Vertrieb
gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Weidestraße 122 a
DE 22083 Hamburg
www.petersen-buchimport.com/gpsr
Autorenportrait
Dinah Jefferies was born in Malaysia and moved to England at the age of nine. Her idyllic childhood always held a special place in her imagination, and when she began writing novels in her 60s, she was able to return there - first in her fiction and then on annual research trips for each new novel. Dinah Jefferies is the author of novels, The Separation, The Tea Planter's Wife - a Number One Sunday Times bestseller, The Silk Merchant's Daughter, Before the Rains and The Missing Sister. She lives in Gloucestershire.
