From the author of "Snow Flower & The Secret Fan", this is a powerful and haunting love story steeped in the richness and magic of 17th century China. Following Peony, who's lived a cloistered life among women, and who's betrothed to man she's never met, it incorporates the themes of love, desire and sorrow. For fans of "Memoirs Of A Geisha", "Wild Swans" and "Empress Orchid".