The Empress Lover by Linda Jaivin

The Empress Lover

Linda Jaivin

336 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction historical mysterious reflective medium-paced
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‘Stories are the only thing that defy death. Stories are truth. I hereby give you mine…’ Peking, 1944: Sir Edmund Backhouse is a man of many parts. A polyglot scholar. An effete homosexual. A genius of perversity, a forger, arms salesman, occasion...

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