- Title:
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Dreams of Joy
- Written by:
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Lisa See
- Read by:
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Janet Song
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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13
- Duration:
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15 hours 42 minutes
- Published:
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March 01 2012
- Available Date:
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March 28 2012
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781743106402
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical; Historical Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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#1 New York Times bestseller
“Startlingly vivid ... so gorgeous it hurts.”
Cosmopolitan
Reunite with Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s daughter Joy in the midst of China’s Great Leap Forward.
Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people, despite what her family keeps telling her.
Meanwhile, Pearl returns to China to bring Joy home - if she can. For Mao has launched his Great Leap Forward, and each passing season brings ever greater hardship. Pearl must use her contacts from her decadent childhood in 1930s Shanghai to find a way to safety, and a chance of joy for them both.
“With each new novel, Lisa See gets better and better. Each work is more tightly woven, richer with information, its characters more memorable than the last. And so it is with Dreams of Joy. The scope of the novel is astonishing ... one of those hard-to-put-down-until-four-in-the-morning books – but happily, the action is not all external. This is often the difference between forgettable and unforgettable books ... Stories of the lives of women in the People's Republic of See's novel are particularly deep and unforgettable ... one of the best depictions of the true spirit of motherhood you'll ever see in fiction ... Of course there are dangers in confusing fiction with history, but there is so much nuance and so little evidence of revisionism in Dreams of Joy. In the end, it's a story with characters who enter a reader's life, take up residence, and illuminate the myriad decisions and stories that make up human history.”
Los Angeles Times