Shanghai Girls

Lisa See

Original title: Shanghai girls

earliest edition we have, 2009 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2009 336 pages

May and Pearl — book 1

In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their fathers prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives - until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have travele...

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Shanghai Girls edition · 2010 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 336 pages · 9781408801123
Shanghai Girls edition · 2009 · Penguin Random House · 9781299074354
Shanghai Girls edition · 2009 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 336 pages · 9780747597384
Shanghai girls edition · 2009 · Isis · 485 pages · 9780753184776

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