Tempo di lettura:
11h 44m
Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing
Anno: 2005
Lingua: Inglese
Rilegatura: Flessibile
Pagine: 352 Pagine
Isbn 10: 0747568332
Isbn 13: 9780747568339
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.
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