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The year is 1883.China is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. In the countryside- antagonismagainst foreigners and missionaries is growing and the warlords are at large. Li Ling- a youngpeasant girl in China- flees to Malaya to escape being made a concubine to awarlord- only to find herself tricked into becoming a second wife to a rich manwith sadistic tendencies. Her life becomes intertwined with that of herrescuer- Shao Peng- in a Malaya that is rapidly transforming under Britishrule. A Flash of Waterfollows New Beginnings and together with Sweet Offerings and Bitter-SweetHarvest forms a quadrilogy- which traces the lives of one family against theturbulent political- economic and social changes in China and Malaya. The booksare complete in themselves....