| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
9 audio discs (10.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
| Note |
Title from disc surface. |
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"A novel"--Container insert. |
| Performer |
Read by Simon Vance. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
| Summary |
It's 1910 and people are mysteriously dying at an alarming rate in the Russian-ruled city of Kharbin, a major railway outpost in Northern China. Strangely, some of the dead bodies vanish before they can be identified. During a dangerously cold winter in a city gripped by fear, the Baron, a wealthy Russian aristocrat and the city's medical commissioner, is determined to stop this mysterious plague. Battling local customs, an occupying army, and a brutal epidemic with no name, the Baron is torn between duty and compassion, between Western medical science and respect for Chinese tradition. His allies include a French doctor, a black marketeer, and a charismatic Chinese dwarf. His greatest refuge is the intimacy he shares with his young Chinese wife, but she has secrets of her own. |
| Subject |
Russians -- China -- Harbin -- Fiction.
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Plague -- Fiction.
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Epidemics -- Fiction.
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Harbin (China) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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FICTION / Historical.
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FICTION / Literary.
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FICTION / Medical.
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Epidemics. (OCoLC)fst00914079
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Plague. (OCoLC)fst01065045
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Russians. (OCoLC)fst01102429
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China -- Harbin.
(OCoLC)fst01213648
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Audiobooks.
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Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Vance, Simon, narrator.
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| ISBN |
9781549140136 (sound recording ; Blackstone Library CD) |
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1549140132 (sound recording ; Blackstone Library CD) |
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9781549140167 (sound recording ; Blackstone Retail CD) |
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1549140167 (sound recording ; Blackstone Retail CD) |
| Standard No. |
9781549140167 |
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