num_pages: 288
description: Los Angeles Times bestseller -- now in paperback. A "sensuous and disquieting new novel" [ New York Times ] from one of China's most acclaimed novelists, the award-winning screenwriter of Joan Chen's film Xiu The Sent-Down Girl The Lost Daughter of Happiness is an epic and moving love story of individuals intoxicated with one another and yet repeatedly separated by prejudice and mistrust. The novel chronicles the lives of the main characters over decades against a backdrop of social turmoil -- the anti-Chinese hysteria that plagued San Francisco.
language: English
title: The Lost Daughter of Happiness
titlecomplete: The Lost Daughter of Happiness
genres: Fiction, Historical, Asia, China, Romance, Asian Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Chinese Literature
ratings_count: 489
places: The United States of America
publisher: Hyperion