Bøger af Janie Chang

”Kate Quinns velresearchede historiske romaner er så medrivende, at man ikke kan slippe dem.”– JULIA LAHMESAN FRANCISCO, 1906. I en by, der vrimler med nyslåede millionærer og intrigante opkomlinge, håber to meget forskellige kvinder på at ændre deres skæbner: Sopranen Gemma, hvis karriere og selvtillid hænger i en tynd tråd, og Suling, datteren af en vaskeriejer i Chinatown, der forsøger at slippe ud af et arrangeret ægteskab.Deres veje krydses, da de begge havner i kredsen omkring Henry Thornton, en charmerende jernbanemagnat, hvis ekstraordinære samling af kinesiske antikviteter omfatter en yderst sjælden og smuk fønikskrone.Et ødelæggende jordskælv flår byen fra hinanden og vender op og ned på alting. Thornton forsvinder og efterlader sig et mysterium, der er større, end nogen kunne have forestillet sig. Et mysterium, som måske lader sig løse, da Fønikskronen dukker op igen fem år senere ved et overdådigt kostumebal i Paris.KATE QUINN er en amerikansk forfatter, der har skrevet en lang række historiske romaner. I 2018 udgav hun bestselleren Kodenavn Alice baseret på en sand historie om kvindelige spioner under Første Verdenskrig, som også var hendes første roman på dansk.JANIE CHANG er en canadisk forfatter – født i Taiwan – som tidligere har udgivet den anmelderroste Dragon Springs Road. Fønikskronen er Changs debut på dansk.

San Francisco, 1906. I en by der vrimler med nyslåede millionærer og intrigante opkomlinge, håber to meget forskellige kvinder på at ændre deres skæbner: Gemma, en guldhåret, sølvstemmet sopran, hvis karriere desperat trænger til genoplivning, og Suling, en brodøse i China Town, der er fast besluttet på at slippe ud af et arrangeret ægteskab. Deres veje krydses, da de bliver trukket ind i kredsen omkring Henry Thornton, en charmerende jernbanemagnat, hvis ekstraordinære samling af kinesiske antikviteter omfatter den sagnomspundne Fønikskrone.

From the critically acclaimed author of The Library of Legends comes a vividly rendered novel set in WWI France about two young women?one Chinese, one French?whose lives intersect with unexpected, potentially dangerous consequences.?East meets West in World War I France. In The Porcelain Moon, Janie Chang exhibits her signature trademarks?lyrical prose, deftly drawn characters, and skillful excavation of little-known history?to give us a rare jewel in a sea of wartime fiction!?? Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling authorFrance, 1918. In the final days of the First World War, a young Chinese woman, Pauline Deng, runs away from her uncle's home in Paris to evade a marriage being arranged for her in Shanghai. To prevent the union, she needs the help of her cousin Theo, who is working as a translator for the Chinese Labour Corps in the French countryside. In the town of Noyelles-sur-Mer, Camille Roussel is planning her escape from an abusive marriage, and to end a love affair that can no longer continue. When Camille offers Pauline a room for her stay, the two women become friends. But it's not long before Pauline uncovers a perilous secret that Camille has been hiding from her. As their dangerous situation escalates, the two women are forced to make a terrible decision that will bind them together for the rest of their lives.Set against the little-known history of the 140,000 Chinese workers brought to Europe as non-combatant labor during WWI, The Porcelain Moon is a tale of forbidden love, identity and belonging, and what we are willing to risk for freedom.

From the author of Three Souls and Dragon Springs Road comes a captivating historical novel—the third in a loosely-connected trilogy—in which a young woman travels across China with a convoy of student refugees, fleeing the hostilities of a brutal war with Japan.“Myths are the darkest and brightest incarnations of who we are…”China, 1937: When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. Lian and a convoy of more than a hundred students, faculty, and staff must walk a thousand miles to the safety of China’s western provinces, a journey marred by hunger, cold, and the constant threat of aerial attack. And it is not just the student refugees whose lives are at risk: Lian and her classmates have been entrusted with a priceless treasure: a 500-year-old collection of myths and folklore known as the Library of Legends. Her family’s past has made Lian wary of forming attachments, but the students’ common duty to safeguard the Library of Legends forms unexpected bonds. Lian finds friendship and a cautious romance with the handsome and wealthy Liu Shaoming. But after one classmate is murdered and another arrested, Lian realizes she must escape from the convoy before a family secret puts her in danger. Accompanied by Shao and the enigmatic maidservant Sparrow, Lian makes her way to Shanghai, hoping to reunite with her mother. On the journey, Lian learns of the connection between her two companions and a tale from the Library of Legends, The Willow Star and the Prince. Learning Shao and Sparrow’s true identities compels Lian to confront her feelings for Shao. But there are broader consequences too, for as the ancient books travel across China, they awaken immortals and guardian spirits to embark on an exodus of their own, one that changes the country’s fate forever.Based on true events, rich in Chinese history and lore, The Library of Legends is both an illuminating exploration of China’s recent past and an evocative tale of love, sacrifice, and the extraordinary power of storytelling.

She must, they tell her, make amends.As Leiyin delves back in time with the three souls to review her life, she sees the spoiled and privileged teenager she once was, a girl who is concerned with her own desires while China is fractured by civil war and social upheaval.

From the author of Three Souls comes a vividly imagined and haunting new novel set in early 20th century Shanghai—a story of friendship, heartbreak, and history that follows a young Eurasian orphan’s search for her long-lost mother.That night I dreamed that I had wandered out to Dragon Springs Road all on my own, when a dreadful knowledge seized me that my mother had gone away never to return . . . In 1908, Jialing is only seven years old when she is abandoned in the courtyard of a once-lavish estate near Shanghai. Jialing is zazhong—Eurasian—and faces a lifetime of contempt from both Chinese and Europeans. Without her mother’s protection, she can survive only if the estate’s new owners, the Yang family, agree to take her in.Jialing finds allies in Anjuin, the eldest Yang daughter, and Fox, an animal spirit who has lived in the haunted courtyard for centuries. But Jialing’s life as the Yangs’ bondservant changes unexpectedly when she befriends a young English girl who then mysteriously vanishes.Always hopeful of finding her long-lost mother, Jialing grows into womanhood during the tumultuous early years of the Chinese republic, guided by Fox and by her own strength of spirit, away from the shadows of her past. But she finds herself drawn into a murder at the periphery of political intrigue, a relationship that jeopardizes her friendship with Anjuin and a forbidden affair that brings danger to the man she loves.