The Lost Daughter of Happiness

• Main Author: Yan, Geling (Author)
• Other Authors: Silber, Cathy
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Faber and Faber 2001
• Subjects: Yan, Geling > Translations into English
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• Physical Description: 276 pages 18 cm
• ISBN: 0571214622

Fusang is a Chinese girl shanghaied from her village in China, brought to California and sold into the seedy underworld of prostitution. Soon she falls into an obsessive relationship a young boy. Chris. But many barriers are laid between the lovers-by Chris's wealthy family, and most menacingly by Fusang's murderous pimp, who bestrides Chinatown with a clutch of daggers at his waist. "Geling Yan's great storytelling lets you enjoy silk and embroidery, tea and dangling earrings, everlasting love and derring-do; it lets you, with the luscious vicarious masochism of a true fiction lover, relish the horrors of giving your body to hideous strangers or, as a coolic railroad worker, being beaten to a pulp by striking Caucasian workers. Observer 'An erotic epic bursting with intelligence. forbidden emotions, and disregard for easy answers, The Lost Daughter Happiness bravely unearths the Secret fantasies and complex obsessions which pass between races, and between the sexes. David Henry Hwang, author of M. Butterfly