Women Of The Silk
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Women Of The Silk
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Author : Gail Tsukiyama
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Women Of The Silk written by Gail Tsukiyama and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Fiction categories.
In Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own. Tsukiyama's graceful prose weaves the details of "the silk work" and Chinese village life into a story of courage and strength.
Women Of The Silk
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Author : Gail Tsukiyama
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 1991
Women Of The Silk written by Gail Tsukiyama and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Fiction categories.
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.
Women Of The Silk
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Author : Gail Tsukiyama
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Women Of The Silk written by Gail Tsukiyama and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with China categories.
Sent by her family to work in a silk factory just prior to World War II, young Pei grows to womanhood, working fifteen-hour days and sending her pay to the family who abandoned her.
The Girl Who Wrote In Silk
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Author : Kelli Estes
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2015-07-07
The Girl Who Wrote In Silk written by Kelli Estes and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-07 with Fiction categories.
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "A powerful debut that proves the threads that interweave our lives can withstand time and any tide, and bind our hearts forever."—Susanna Kearsley, New York Times bestselling author of Belleweather and The Vanished Days A historical novel inspired by true events, Kelli Estes's brilliant and atmospheric debut is a poignant tale of two women determined to do the right thing, highlighting the power of our own stories. The smallest items can hold centuries of secrets... While exploring her aunt's island estate, Inara Erickson is captivated by an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house. The truth behind the silk sleeve dated back to 1886, when Mei Lien, the lone survivor of a cruel purge of the Chinese in Seattle found refuge on Orcas Island and shared her tragic experience by embroidering it. As Inara peels back layer upon layer of the centuries of secrets the sleeve holds, her life becomes interwoven with that of Mei Lein. Through the stories Mei Lein tells in silk, Inara uncovers a tragic truth that will shake her family to its core—and force her to make an impossible choice. Should she bring shame to her family and risk everything by telling the truth, or tell no one and dishonor Mei Lien's memory? A touching and tender book for fans of Marie Benedict, Susanna Kearsley, and Duncan Jepson, The Girl Who Wrote in Silk is a dual-time period novel that explores how a delicate piece of silk interweaves the past and the present, reminding us that today's actions have far reaching implications. Praise for The Girl Who Wrote in Silk: "A beautiful, elegiac novel, as finely and delicately woven as the title suggests. Kelli Estes spins a spellbinding tale that illuminates the past in all its brutality and beauty, and the humanity that binds us all together." —Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author of The Beekeeper's Ball "A touching and tender story about discovering the past to bring peace to the present." —Duncan Jepson, author of All the Flowers in Shanghai "Vibrant and tragic, The Girl Who Wrote in Silk explores a horrific, little-known era in our nation's history. Estes sensitively alternates between Mei Lien, a young Chinese-American girl who lived in the late 1800s, and Inara, a modern recent college grad who sets Mei Lien's story free." —Margaret Dilloway, author of How to Be an American Housewife and Sisters of Heart and Snow
Silk And Steel
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Author : Robert L Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-11-10
Silk And Steel written by Robert L Wilson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Silk and Steel: Women at Arms is the first comprehensive presentation on the subject of women and firearms. No object has had a greater impact on world history over the past 650 years than the firearm, and Wilson shows how women have played a vital role in its development. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Life Along The Silk Road
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Author : Susan Whitfield
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999
Life Along The Silk Road written by Susan Whitfield and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
The Silk Road was the most traveled trade route for over 1,000 years until it was eclipsed by maritime trade. Whitfield presents composite stories of merchants, soldiers, artists, and princesses who traveled the route, and presents its history through their personal experiences.
Women Of The Gobi
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Author : Kate James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Women Of The Gobi written by Kate James and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Travel writing.
Portrait Of A Woman In Silk
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Author : Zara Anishanslin
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-20
Portrait Of A Woman In Silk written by Zara Anishanslin and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-20 with History categories.
Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one of early modern Britain’s few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant’s wife, and a New England painter. Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis, Anishanslin shows how making, buying, and using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, while also allowing for different views of the Empire. Investigating a range of subjects including self-fashioning, identity, natural history, politics, and trade, Anishanslin makes major contributions both to the study of material culture and to our ongoing conversation about how to write history.
The Silk House
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Author : Kayte Nunn
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-10-01
The Silk House written by Kayte Nunn and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-01 with Fiction categories.
'Exquisitely written, this vivid story may just bewitch you' Woman 'Utterly spellbinding' Natasha Lester 'Exquisitely written, this vivid story may just bewitch you' Woman's Weekly An enchanting mystery kept hidden for hundreds of years... 1700s Rowan Caswell leaves her village to work at the home of an English silk merchant. Very soon, she finds herself thrust into a dangerous world, where her talent for herbs and healing starts to attract unwanted attention. Mary-Louise Stephenson dreams of becoming a silk designer, a path that has remained largely forbidden to women. A length of fabric she weaves with a pattern of deadly flowers will have shocking consequences for all who dwell at the Silk House. Present Day Thea Rust arrives at an exclusive boarding school in the British countryside to look after the first intake of girls in its history. She is to stay with them in the Silk House, a converted silk factory from the 18th century, where the shadows hide secrets waiting to be discovered...
Silk
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Author : Alessandro Baricco
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2006-07-09
Silk written by Alessandro Baricco and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-09 with Fiction categories.
In 1861 French silkworm merchant Hervé Joncour travels to Japan, where he encounters the mysterious Hara Kei. He develops a painful longing for Kei’s beautiful concubine – but they cannot touch; they don’t even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his own country. But the moment he does, Joncour is enslaved. Subtle, tender and surprising, Silk is an evocative tale of erotic possession.