Olejar Books

A novel set in China in the 1920s. When the young concubine of an old farmer in rural China gives birth to a daughter called Li-Xia, or “Beautiful One,– the child seems destined to become a concubine herself. Li refuses to submit to her fate, outwitting her father–™s orders to bind her feet and escaping the silk farm with an English sea captain. Li takes her first steps toward fulfilling her mother–™s dreams of becoming a scholar–”but her final triumph must be left to her daughter, Su Sing, “Little Star,– in a journey that will take her from remote mountain refuges to the perils of Hong Kong on the eve of World War II.