- Fiction, Historical fiction, Empresses, History
Empress Orchid, a small-town woman rises to power through sexual seduction and even murder to become Empress of China. This book chronicles Orchid's rule as she raises two sons to be emperors and confronts the Boxer Rebellion.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and epic.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Anchee Min
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 328
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Mariner Books, Windsor
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781408413616
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