Empress Orchid

Anchee Min  (автор)

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'Empress Orchid delivers a fictional peek into the intrigues of the Forbidden City ... strong on both sexual chicanery and violent conspiracy ... a fascinating account'

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To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine she enters the erotically charged and ritualised Forbidden City. But beneath its immaculate facade lie whispers of murders and ghosts, and the thousands of concubines will stoop to any lengths to bear the Emperor's son. Orchid trains herself in the art of pleasuring a man, bribes her way into the royal bed, and seduces the monarch, drawing the attention of dangerous foes. Little does she know that China will collapse around her, and that she will be its last Empress.

'Based on the true story of China's last Empress, a charismatic woman from an impoverished aristocratic family, who comes to life in this fascinating novel'

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'Playing on every one of our senses, Anchee Min illuminates the darkest aspects of the exclusive Forbidden City ... exquisite... With a dying Emperor who has only one son, opium wars, manipulative concubines, powerful eunuchs, treachery, eroticism and names like Little Cloud and the  Hall of Literary Zest, you cannot miss this enlightening story

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