Thousand pieces of gold : a biographical novel
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Boston : Beacon Press, [2004].
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349 pages ; 21 cm.
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Oliver La Farge - Adult
Fiction McCunn, R
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Published
Boston : Beacon Press, [2004].
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-339).
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"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. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one women's fight for independence and dignity in the American West."--Book jacket.

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