Once Our Lives: Life, Death and Love in the Middle Kingdom

Stubis, Qin Sun

ISBN 10: 1771837969 / ISBN 13: 9781771837965

Published by Guernica Editions, 2023

About this Item

100 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.92 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # 1771837969

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Once Our Lives: Life, Death and Love in the Middle Kingdom
• Publisher: Guernica Editions
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1771837969
• ISBN 13: 9781771837965
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.62 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

MS. MAGAZINE's choice for "Reads for the Rest of Us"
GLAMOUR UK Best New Books for June
2023 Gold Winner - Nonfiction Book Awards
2023 First Place Winner - Chanticleer International Book Awards' (CIBAs)
Nellie Bly Awards for Journalistic Nonfiction
2023 Readers' Favorite Book Awards
2023 PenCraft Book Awards #1 winner for literary excellence in culture/history
2023 Best Book Awards winner in cross-genre nonfiction 
 
Once Our Lives is the amazing true story of four generations of Chinese women who bravely struggle to survive war, revolution and a mysterious ancient superstition that dramatically alters their destinies. The book takes the reader on an exotic journey filled with luxurious banquets, lost jewels, babies sold in opium dens, kidnappings by pirates, and a desperate flight from death in the desert - seen through the eyes of a man for whom the truth would spell disaster and a lonely, beautiful girl with three identities.

About the Author

Qin Sun Stubis, author of the historical memoir, Once Our Lives, is a Chinese-American writer in the Washington, D.C. area. She is a longtime newspaper columnist and writes poems, essays, short stories and original Chinese tall tales inspired by traditional Asian themes.