Women of the silk
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Spanning the years between the world wars, this tale of a young Chinese girl forced to work in a silk factory describes the sisterhood of workers she discovers there.
Vrouwen van de Zijde Reeks
Deze serie volgt de reis van een jonge vrouw terwijl ze de complexiteit van het leven en haar groei doorkruist. Het portretteert prachtig haar overgang van adolescentie naar volledige volwassenheid, waarbij haar veerkracht en evoluerende geest worden benadrukt. De verhalen duiken in het ingewikkelde web van relaties en maatschappelijke verwachtingen die ze tegenkomt. Lezers zullen geboeid raken door deze meeslepende saga over ambitie, persoonlijke ontdekking en de blijvende kracht van het menselijk hart.
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Readers of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young woman whose life is subject to cruel twists of fate, including the loss of her closest friend, Lin. Now, in bestselling novelist Gail Tsukiyama's The Language of Threads, we finally learn what happened to Pei, as she leaves the silk house for Hong Kong in the 1930s, arriving with a young orphan, Ji Shen, in her care. Her first job, in the home of a wealthy family, ends in disgrace, but soon Pei and Ji Shen find a new life in the home of Mrs. Finch, a British ex-patriate who welcomes them as the daughters she never had. Their idyllic life is interrupted, however, by war, and the Japanese occupation. Pei is once again forced to make her own way, struggling to survive and to keep her extended family alive as well. In this story of hardship and survival, Tsukiyama paints a portrait of women fighting the forces of war and time to make a life for themselves.
