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A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center.
In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia Ivanova has lived a hard life. Always looking over her shoulder, the sixteen-year-old must steal to feed herself and her mother, Valentina, who numbered among the Russian elite until Bolsheviks murdered most of them, including her husband. As exiles, Lydia and Valentina have learned to survive in a foreign land.
Often, Lydia steals away to meet with the handsome young freedom fighter Chang An Lo. But they face danger: Chiang Kai Shek's troops are headed toward Junchow to kill Reds like Chang, who has in his possession the jewels of a tsarina, meant as a gift for the despot's wife. The young pair's all-consuming love can only bring shame and peril upon them, from both sides. Those in power will do anything to quell it. But Lydia and Chang are powerless to end it.
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Jacques Quinn
reviewed The Russian Concubine on June 26, 2008
The Russian Concubine
The Russian Concubine started out like Cool Whip: light & fluffy. But I thought to myself, "Sometimes Cool Whip is good!" Unfortunately, midway through, I began to feel as if I'd eaten an entire tub of that crap. Then came page 331, and I knew I couldn't read another line and still respect myself in the morning:
"...Enjoy this breath, Po Chu, because it will be your last if you call my beloved a whore again..."
"She begged. Ah, Tiyo Willbee, how she begged..."
"Begged? For what?"
"For our honorable father to release you from the deal with that monkey brain Mason...Of course the great Feng Tu Hong...was not moved by her street girl ways."
"I warned you, scum of the gutter."
SCUM OF THE GUTTER??? MONKEY BRAIN??? Really?
I checked real quick to make sure Fabio wasn't on the cover, but no, he isn't...I will count on my friends to tell me how it all works out. I'm done.
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