Nanjing requiem

The award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash returns to his homeland in a searing new novel that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century: the Rape of Nanjing. In 1937, with the Japanese poised to invade Nanjing, Minnie Vautrin--an American missionary and the dean of J...

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Main Author: Jin, Ha, 1956-
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language:English
Published: 2011.
Series:Vintage International.
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