description: The bestselling author of Women of the Silk and The Samurai's Garden offers a powerful, coming-of-age story set in Hong Kong, during the eventful years between 1940 and 1965.When war threatens the comfortable life of Joan and Emma Lew, the daughters of a Hong Kong businessman, they escape with their family to spend the early 1940s in Macao. When they return home, Joan, the beautiful elder sister, hopes for a traditional marriage and children, until her passion for movies and romance gives her the promise of different life. Emma, inspired by the independence of her aunt Go, considers college in San Francisco and the challenge of life in America.As the girls become women, each follows a different path from what her family expects. But through times of great happiness and sorrow, the sisters learn that their complicated ties to each other--and to the other members of their close-knit family--are a source of strength as they pursue their separate dreams.
language: English
title: Night of Many Dreams
titlecomplete: Night of Many Dreams
genres: Fiction, Asia, Coming Of Age, Historical Fiction, Japan, War, Asian Literature, Historical, China, World War II
ratings_count: 2734
publisher: St. Martin's Press