Overview
<p>1900. For Tianjin’s European colonists a profitable new century is dawning, but for the city’s downtrodden Chinese natives the Zodiac cycle’s end signals imminent catastrophe. Meanwhile the fearsome Boxer warriors – said by some to be bulletproof – are spilling in from the provinces.<p>
<p>On restless streets, a dangerous liaison begins. Ouyang Jue, gentle layabout and heir to a merchant fortune, finds himself entangled with Xénia, a French officer’s daughter indulging every impulse on her first visit to China. Each sees liberation in the other; a chance to leap through the mirror and escape the mundane.<p>
<p>Separated by the widening divide between their two worlds, the lovers were never meant to be. But as discontent sparks into all-out conflagration, will they find paradise behind the glass? Or will they join the ashes of what might have been?<p>
- | Author: Feng Jicai, Olivia Milburn
- | Publisher: ACA Publishing Limited
- | Publication Date: Jun 14, 2021
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9781838905149
- | ISBN-10: 1838905146
