The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure
Author | : Adam Williams |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 864 |
Release | : 2004-04-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781848947771 |
ISBN-13 | : 1848947771 |
Rating | : 4/5 (771 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure written by Adam Williams and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of foreigners in the northeastern town of Shishan finds the status quo upset when Helen Frances, a young woman with a middle class upbringing but a fatal flaw, arrives and falls in love with the Hon Henry Manners. The most astonishing range of characters awaits you in this novel; the wicked brothel-keeper Madam Liu and her sadistic son Ren Ren, the pragmatic, rational missionary Dr Airton, the American zealot Septimus Harding, the equivocal Mandarin. Not to mention the wonderfully complicated anti-hero Henry Manners, the prostitutes Fan Yimei and Shen Ping, the bandit Iron Man Wang, the Mongolian shaman. And the ingenue, Helen Frances herself, whose innocence covers an unorthodox curiosity.