Thousand Pieces Of Gold: A Biographical Novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Thousand Pieces Of Gold: A Biographical Novel

Ruthanne Lum McCunn

308 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

fiction historical emotional reflective fast-paced
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Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a...

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