num_pages: 528
description: The acclaimed author of Empire of Heaven, called by The New York Times "a Chinese Gone with the Wind," now creates a richly told immigrant saga of nineteenth-century Hawaii.Hawaii offers radiant hope to Rulan and Pao An--exiles from Chinese tyranny, immigrants with the will to succeed despite hardship and prejudice and enemies from their homeland. But this proud couple's hardest struggle will be with their own child, Molly. Hawaiian-born Molly grows to despise the old Chinese ways. Locked in perpetual combat with her parents, she is drawn into a dangerous love affair with a decadent young poet, a protege of the king. And even as the family's fortunes rise, Molly's mother watches in sorrow, fearing that her child will realize too late that happiness lies far closer to home.
language: English
title: Map of Paradise: A Novel of Nineteenth-Century Hawaii
titlecomplete: Map of Paradise: A Novel of Nineteenth-Century Hawaii
ratings_count: 12
publisher: Bantam Books