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Tent Of Orange Mist
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During the Sino-Japanese conflict before WWII, Japanese soldiers kidnapped thousands of young women, putting them to work as sex slaves for their officers. Paul West tells the story of Scald Ibis, an intellectual 16-year-old held captive in her own home in Nanking. Scald Ibis becomes the favorite concubine of Hayashi, the colonel who runs the Tent of Orange Mist, as the bordello comes to be known. West's strong, finely wrought prose is at once tender in its texture and cruel in its lucidity; his characters are delineated vividly, with power and psychological depth. "The language thrilled and appalled him," the narrator says at one point. When West's pen traces appalling circumstances, the thrill is not mere sensationalism-it is sensation itself, technique and emotion joining forces to scale the reader's spine. This fictional glance at a neglected episode in history is a profoundly moral book, as well as a rare aesthetic pleasure.
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ISBN:
9780879517922
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
09/01/1997
Publisher:
OVERLOOK PRESS
Pages:
272
Height:
8.04 in.
Width:
5.44 in.
Thickness:
.78 in.
Grade Range:
General/trade
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1997
Series Volume:
v. 356
UPC Code:
2800879517924
Author:
Paul West
Subject:
Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) History Fiction.
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Nanking (China) History Fiction.
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History
Subject:
General Fiction
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Nanjing
Subject:
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
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Sino-Japanese Conflict, 19
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Fiction
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China History 1937-1945.
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