Random House Inc. 12/01/1993. Reissue. Pearl gradually comes to understand her mother Jiang Weili (Winnie) as a heroic survivor, not a troublesome anachronism, as they begin to reveal secrets about themselves to one another. Winnie tells the story of how she escaped a horrible marriage to a cowardly fighter pilot in the Sino-Japanese war and how he may or may not be Pearl's father. Meanwhile Pearl gathers the strength confide her great secret, that she has multiple sclerosis, to her mother. Originally published at $13.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 09/01/1997. 263 pgs. When her family's villa in Nanking is invaded by the Japanese, Scald Ibis is a 16-year-old artist and intellectual waiting for her father to return from the war. After Hayashi, the invading colonel, rapes Scald Ibis, he turns the villa into a high-class bordello and Scald Ibis survives by becoming geisha in the "Tent of Orange Mist." When her father Hong returns at first he treads lightly around this new situation by becoming an interpreter for Hayashi, but when he learns exactly what services his daughter must perform, he kills Hayashi and then is killed himself. Scald Ibis' lives to sue the Japanese government 55 years later. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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