The Emperor's Bones

By Adam Williams

Book Overview

Beautiful, headstrong and unconventional, Catherine Cabot is twenty years old when she arrives in China. Against an uneasy political background a bittersweet, triangular love affair develops between... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340828161
• ISBN13: 9780340828168
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 9.4" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Exciting and entertaining novel

This is an innovative novel that covers a time in China's history that is not widely known by the average westerner - the turbulent time leading up to the foundation of the Communist Party and the People's Repulbic of China as it is today. The story is told by two women, one a feisty red head woman born in Mongolia to an adventurous mother of English stock; the other a Chinese from an aristocratic family who pays dearly for her political ideals and revolutionary fervour. The characters are richly drawn and believable; the history true to the facts - it was a messy time between the World Wars and many people died. The obligatory romance palls a little from time to time, but this is a small criticism of a fine and well researched novel. If you can find a copy I recommend it highly