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As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong

ISBN: 9780143567110 PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (NZ) FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 288 PUBLICATION DATE: 3.01.2012 DIMENSIONS: 198mmX129mmX22mm 240grams

DESCRIPTION: He came from behind and held her in his arms, told her to look again at earth and sky and water. Could she see how the world turned silver? People died, he told her, because they were afraid. They did not go out at night on dangerous water. They did not see the earth as it turned overnight to silver. From the late nineteenth century to the 1920's, from Kwangtung, China to Wellington and Dunedin and the Battlefields of the Western Front - a story of two families. Yung faces a new land that does not welcome the Chinese. Alone, Katherine struggles to raise her children and find her place in the world. In a climate of hostility towards the foreign newcomers, Katherine and Yung embark on a poignant and far-reaching love affair ...

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