White Gardenia
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 481
Description: 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 Gardenia sweeps across cultures and continets, from the glamorous nightclubs of Shanghai to the harsness of Cold War Soviet Russia in the 1960s, from a desolate island in the Parcific 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 find each other again. -- back cover.