num_pages: 287
description: Will Kiehn is seemingly destined for life as a humble farmer in the Midwest when having felt a call from God he travels to the vast North China Plain in the early twentieth-century. There he is surprised by love and weds a strong and determined fellow missionary Katherine. They soon find themselves witnesses to the crumbling of a more than two-thousand-year-old dynasty that plunges the country into decades of civil war. As the couple works to improve the lives of the people of Kuang P'ing Ch'eng-- City of Tranquil Light a place they come to love--and face incredible hardship will their faith and relationship be enough to sustain them?Told through Will and Katherine's alternating viewpoints--and inspired by the lives of the author's maternal grandparents.
language: English
title: City of Tranquil Light
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.