The Lost Daughter of Happiness Author:Geling Yan, Cathy Silber (Translator) The Lost Daughter of Happiness is an epic and moving love story of individuals intoxicated with one another and yet repeatedly separated by prejudice and mistrust. The novel chronicles the lives of the main characters over decades against a backdrop of social turmoil--the anti-Chinese hysteria that plagued San Francisco. — From the back of... more » the book:
In this unflinching and sensual novel set in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Geling Yan traces the lives of two individuals separated by prejudice and mistrust, but bound forever by their passion for one another. Fusang is a Chinese girl who is brought to America and sold into prostitution. Soon she falls into an obsessive relationship with Chris, an eleven-year-old boy. As years pass, numerous barriers are placed between the two to thwart their flourishing love. They are opposed by Chris’s wealthy family and, most menacingly, by Fusang’s murderous pimp, who bestrides Chinatown with a clutch of daggers at his waist, but who turns out to be far different than his fierce reputation would suggest.« less