Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Biographical Memoir by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Biographical Memoir

Ruthanne Lum McCunn

308 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

fiction historical emotional fast-paced
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Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a...

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