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Shanghai girls : a novel / Lisa See.

Por: Tipo de material: TextoTextoSeries May and Pearl ; 01 | May and Pearl ; 1Editor: New York : Random House, 2009Edición: 1st edDescripción: 322 páginas ; 25 cmTipo de contenido:
  • texto
Tipo de medio:
  • no mediado
Tipo de soporte:
  • volumen
ISBN:
  • 9780812980530
Clasificación CDD:
  • 843.912 S415s 2009
Resumen: May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful, sophisticated, and well-educated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hoping to improve their social standing, May and Pearl´s parents arrange for their daughters to marry Gold Mountain men who have come from Los Angeles to find brides. But when the sisters leave China and arrive at Angel´s Island (the Ellis Island of the West) where they are detained, interrogated, and humiliated for months they feel the harsh reality of leaving home. And when May discovers she is pregnant the situation becomes even more desperate. The sisters make a pact that no one can ever know.
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May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful, sophisticated, and well-educated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hoping to improve their social standing, May and Pearl´s parents arrange for their daughters to marry Gold Mountain men who have come from Los Angeles to find brides. But when the sisters leave China and arrive at Angel´s Island (the Ellis Island of the West) where they are detained, interrogated, and humiliated for months they feel the harsh reality of leaving home. And when May discovers she is pregnant the situation becomes even more desperate. The sisters make a pact that no one can ever know.

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