Maureen Lindley Boeken

Thirteen-year-old Satomi Baker is used to being different. It is 1939 and being half-white, half-Japanese on the west coast of California gets you noticed. Although she has never felt she quite fits in, her striking looks have caught the eye of the most popular boy at school. When war is declared, Satomi's father Aaron is sent to the base at Pearl Harbor. He never returns. Now the community that has tolerated its foreign residents for decades suddenly turns on them, and along with thousands of other Japanese-American citizens Satomi and her mother are sent to a brutal labour camp in the wilderness. At Manzanar Satomi learns what it takes to survive, who she can trust, and what it means to be American. But it will be years before she will discover who she really is under the surface of her skin. A Girl Like You is her story, and the riveting and moving story of a lost generation.

An exploration of domestic derangement in the tradition of Daphne Du Maurier's classic Rebecca, that plumbs the depths of sibling rivalry with wit and menace.

Peking, 1914. Eight-year-old Eastern Jewel peers from behind a screen as her father, Prince Su, makes love to a servant girl. Caught spying by her thirteenth sister, Eastern Jewel's sexual curiosity sees her banished to live with distant relatives in Tokyo, then forced into a passionless marriage in freezing Mongolia. Increasingly isolated, at night she is plagued by disturbing fantasies and unsettling dreams. But she refuses to be pinned down by anyone - least of all a man - and in the dazzling city of Shanghai she puts her thrill-seeking nature to work spying for the Japanese, spurning everything she once held dear ... Based on the real-life story of Yoshiko Kawashima, Chinese princess turned ruthless Japanese spy, The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel is an intoxicating tale of sexual manipulation and self-discovery that spans three countries and a world war.

Basada en la vida real de Joya de Oriente (tambin llamada Yoshiko Kawashima), esta historia arranca en el mundo del ltimo emperador chino, cuando la protagonista tiene ocho aos y es pillada in fraganti cuando espa a su padre acostarse con una nia de catorce aos. La novela narra en primera persona, al modo de unas memorias, y con ritmo rpido, las dos facetas principales de su vida: la sexual y la de espa. Narrada en primera persona desde la crcel, al final de la Segunda Guerra, justo antes de su ejecucin por los Chinos, por alta traicin.