The language of threads
By: Gail Tsukiyama
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780312203764
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Description: After the Japanese invade China, a woman in the silk trade flees her village, taking along an orphaned "silk sister." The two find refuge in Hong Kong, only to lose everything when World War II breaks out and the Japanese come again.