![]() The wonderfully drawn and all-too-human characters struggle to survive in a world of danger and bewildering change, constantly choosing whether to embrace the past or to escape it, caught between cultures' Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander series 'A pulse-racing romance. A hugely ambitious and atmospheric epic novel' Kate Mosse, author of LABYRINTH 'The Russian Concubine is a great story of love, loss and conflicting loyalties in a fascinatingly precarious moment of history. ![]() But Lydia and Chang are powerless to end it. Those in power will do anything to quell it. The young pair's all-consuming love can only bring shame and peril upon them, from both sides. But they face danger: Chiang Kai Shek's troops are headed toward Junchow to kill Reds like Chang, who has in his possession the jewels of a tsarina, meant as a gift for the despot's wife. Often, Lydia steals away to meet with the handsome young freedom fighter Chang An Lo. As exiles, Lydia and Valentina have learned to survive in a foreign land. Always looking over her shoulder, the sixteen-year-old must steal to feed herself and her mother, Valentina, who numbered among the Russian elite until Bolsheviks murdered most of them, including her husband. ![]() ![]() In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia Ivanova has lived a hard life. A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center. ![]()
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