Thousand Pieces of Gold Thousand Pieces of Gold

Thousand Pieces of Gold

    • 4.5 • 16 Ratings
    • $7.99

Publisher Description

The extraordinary biographical novel about a Chinese-American woman who fought for independence and dignity in the American West—“an important contribution to the history of pioneer women” (Ms. Magazine)


Lalu Nathoy’s father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his “thousand pieces of gold”—yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game.


With over a quarter of a million copies sold, Thousand Pieces of Gold is a classic of biographical historical fiction that stars an unforgettable Chinese-American heroine whose struggles put a human face on the anti-immigration policies of the past and present.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2015
July 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
216
Pages
PUBLISHER
Beacon Press
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
4.7
MB

Customer Reviews

LLBean199O ,

Stuck with me for years

Amazing book read it years ago and it is a title and story I’ll never forget

Mayberry, SM ,

A Thousand Pieces of Gold

Good story, all throughout I could walk with Lalu/Polly. As I read of her life experiences I thought of mother and her life as as War Bride. Well worth reading.

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