White gardenia
By: Belinda Alexandra
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 593
ISBN-13: 9781471138744; 9781471138751
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Fiction; Missing children
Description: 'Mama, Mama, ' I said to myself, 'keep safe. You will survive, and I will survive, until we can find each other again.' In a district of the city of Harbin, a haven for White Russian families since Russia's Communist revolution, Alina Kozlova must make a heartbreaking decision if her only child, Anya, is to survive the final days of World War II. White Gardeniasweeps across cultures and continents, from the glamorous nightclubs of Shanghai to the harshness of Cold War Soviet Russia in the 1960s, from a desolate island in the Pacific Ocean to a new life in post-war Australia. Both mother and daughter must make sacrifices, but is the price too high? Most importantly of all, will they ever find each other again?
Notes: Originally published: Sydney: HarperCollins, 2002.