Bibliograph

Southern rain, a novel of seventeenth century China, Harry Miller

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Southern rain, a novel of seventeenth century China, Harry Miller

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Southern rain

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Harry Miller

Sub title

a novel of seventeenth century China

Summary

As China's once-glorious Ming dynasty tears itself apart, a young man and woman struggle to stay together. Set before the backdrop of one of the great upheavals in Chinese history, Southern Rain is the story of a carpenter's son who falls for a brilliant Buddhist nun just as she is set to become a powerful man's concubine. Their adventures lead them north to Beijing and south to the Yangtze valley, as art, theater and poetry give way to foreign invasion, banditry and chaos. In a world of turmoil, their search for freedom and safety comes to mirror China's own. Southern Rain is both an intimate portrait of a man and a woman and a sweeping historical epic, presenting China's tumultuous seventeenth century on a human scale

Target audience

adult

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