Winner of the Nautilus Award for Historical Fiction "Lee Geum-yi has a gift for taking little-known embers of history and transforming them into moving, compelling, and uplifting stories. The Picture Bride is the ultimate story of the power of friendship--a must read!" --Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Your husband is a landowner," they told her. "Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees." "You will be able to go to school." Of the three lies the matchmaker... Celý popis
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Winner of the Nautilus Award for Historical Fiction
"Lee Geum-yi has a gift for taking little-known embers of history and transforming them into moving, compelling, and uplifting stories. The Picture Bride is the ultimate story of the power of friendship--a must read!" --Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"Your husband is a landowner," they told her.
"Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees."
"You will be able to go to school."
Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams for this new life are shattered, first by a husband who never wanted to marry her in the first place, and then by the
"Lee Geum-yi has a gift for taking little-known embers of history and transforming them into moving, compelling, and uplifting stories. The Picture Bride is the ultimate story of the power of friendship--a must read!" --Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"Your husband is a landowner," they told her.
"Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees."
"You will be able to go to school."
Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams for this new life are shattered, first by a husband who never wanted to marry her in the first place, and then by the
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| Rok vydání | 2023 |
| Autor | Geum-yi, Lee |
| Počet stran | 320 |
| Výrobce | Tor Publishing Group |
| Jazyk | anglické |
| Váha | 263 gramů |
