num_pages: 276
description: Geling Yan traces the lives of two individuals separated by prejudice and mistrust, but bound forever by their passion for one another. Fusang is a Chinese girl shanghaied from her village in China, brought to California and sold into the seedy underworld of prostitution. Soon she falls into an obsessive relationship with a young boy, Chris. But many barriers are laid between the lovers - by Chris's wealthy family, and most menacingly by Fusang's murderous pimp, who bestrides Chinatown with a clutch of daggers at his waist.
language: English
title: The Lost Daughter of Happiness
titlecomplete: The Lost Daughter of Happiness
genres: China, Asian Literature, Historical, Asia, Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Chinese Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 489
places: The United States of America
publisher: Faber & Faber