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When the orphaned Daiyu leaves her home in the provinces to seek shelter with her cousins in Beijing, she is drawn into a world of opulent splendor presided over by the ruthless, scheming Xifeng and the prim, repressed Baochai. As she learns the secrets behind their glittering facades, she is tangled in a web of intrigue reaching all the way to the Emperor's Palace, and finds herself no longer able to distinguish friend from foe.
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3 editions- Other · English · 20139781844087709
- Other · English · 2013Vintage Books · 381 pages · 9780307946560
- Other · English · 2012Alfred A. Knopf · 381 pages · 9780307701572
WomenFemale friendshipFictionHistoryWomen China History 18th century FictionFiction, historicalBeijing (china), fictionFiction, women