Kate Furnivall
Paperback | Pages: 517 pages Rating: 3.74 | 8908 Users | 940 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Russian Concubine (The Russian Concubine #1) |
| Author | : | Kate Furnivall |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 517 pages |
| Published | : | June 27th 2007 by Berkley Books (first published May 1st 2007) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance. Cultural. China. Russia |
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A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center. In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia Ivanova has lived a hard life. 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. As exiles, Lydia and Valentina have learned to survive in a foreign land. Often, Lydia steals away to meet with the handsome young freedom fighter Chang An Lo. 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. The young pair's all-consuming love can only bring shame and peril upon them, from both sides. Those in power will do anything to quell it. But Lydia and Chang are powerless to end it.Details Books Conducive To The Russian Concubine (The Russian Concubine #1)
| Original Title: | The Russian Concubine |
| ISBN: | 042521558X (ISBN13: 9780425215586) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Russian Concubine #1 |
| Characters: | Lydia Ivanova, Chang An Lo, Valentina Ivanova, Liev Popkov, Alexei Serov, Theo Willoughby, Alfred Parker |
| Setting: | Junchow,1928(China) |
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Ratings: 3.74 From 8908 Users | 940 ReviewsNotice Out Of Books The Russian Concubine (The Russian Concubine #1)
In 1917, a family caught in the midst of the Russian Revolution, is literally ripped apart when Russian revolutionary soldiers assault the train taking the exiles out of the country. Valentina Ivanova tries to barter for the lives of her husband and daughter. Lydia is saved, but her husband is beaten and dragged off with the rest of the men and children who have been forced from the train by the soldiers. The book was very loosely based on the life of the authors mother.At first glance, II chose this book from the book store mainly because of the front cover. The picture is very beautiful, and the title is intriguing. Although, after reading through the book, I don't really understand why it's called The Russian Concubine. Yes, Lydia and Chang are lovers, but concubine just gives a different connotation. Chang wouldn't be able to afford a concubine.The book has such a wonderful array of rich and overlapping characters. If you meet a character once, you can be sure to meet them
Very enjoyable tale, and although I may have skimmed a little bit, it was only cause it was a tad long winded in spots, but overall I really got lost in this story.I believe I have done this the wrong way around and read The Jewel of St. Petersburg first which was apparently released after this one as a prequel but going by peoples reviews it's all probably worked out for the best as I knew all the background to the story and people in it :)
Blech. This sounded exactly like a book I would love. It's historical fiction, lots of drama, a hint of romance in the storyline, but I couldn't have cared less what happened to these people. The first chapter was harsh, but it kind of grabbed you. Then, it was all downhill from there. The mother, whom you thought was going to be this big champion for her daughter, all of a sudden is horrible and doesn't care a fig about anyone in chapter two. I understand the need to make characters complex and
Lydia Ivanova starts life in Russia, but in 1918, her family attempts to flee the Bolsheviks. Lydia and her mother, Valentina, end up in China where Lydia learns to survive on very little apart from her wits and a talent for thieving. Ten years later, she meets and falls in love with a young Chinese Communist, Chang An Lo. But there are many dangers in that turbulent country at that most turbulent of times.This is a huge novel, running to over 500 pages, and the research that must have gone into
This is actually Book two in a current trilogy that I am reading. Wow.... What I love about this story is that the author is not sugar coating anything. If blood is to be spilled, it is and big time. It opens your mind to the true Russian and Chinese history in the early part of the last century. The Bolshevik and Communist history. and in between it has the forbidden love stories first of the mother and then her daughter too. If you only read book 1 "The Jewel of St Petersberg" you will end up
DNF at page 109I'm three quarters Cantonese and though I can't do kung fu to save my life, but I can rip this book apart.First of all, I dnf-ed this book because it was 517 pages and I was not into it. I have a good number of reasons why.Basically, this book is Tsarina and Tiger's Curse, only without the crappy fantasy element of the former and a bit less of the latter's unintended potential racism. It starts with an intense but cheesy prologue where they introduce our MC as a supposedly "Strong
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