| Description |
1 audio disc (900 min) : digital, stereophonic ; 4 3/4 in.. |
| Playing Time |
150000 |
| Series |
Audioksiążka. |
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Audioksiążka.
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| Performer |
Czyta Paulina Holtz. |
| System Details |
MP3 format. |
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System requirements: CD/MP3 player or PC with MP3 capable software. |
| Summary |
May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful, sophisticated, and well-educated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hoping to improve their social standing, May and Pearl's parents arrange for their daughters to marry Gold Mountain men who have come from Los Angeles to find brides. But when the sisters leave China and arrive at Angel's Island (the Ellis Island of the West) where they are detained, interrogated, and humiliated for months they feel the harsh reality of leaving home. And when May discovers she s pregnant the situation becomes even more desperate. The sisters make a pact that no one can ever know. |
| Language |
In Polish. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Sisters -- Fiction.
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Chinese -- United States -- Fiction.
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Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction.
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Family secrets -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Słysz, Magdalena., Tł.
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Holtz, Paulina (1977- )., Lekt.
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| Added Title |
Shanghai girls Polish
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| ISBN |
9788324719204: $19.95 |
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8324719202: $19.95 |
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