The Porcelain Moon Historical Fiction and country

and country

Richard Slotkin takes the pulse of a nation struggling with social inequality during a decisive historical moment

millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all “ghosts in the making

in this thought-provoking and meticulously researched account

with many people only vaguely aware of its course of events

The Porcelain Moon Historical Fiction and countryDescription by Janie Chang paperback France, 1918. In the final days of the First World War, a young Chinese woman, Pauline Deng, runs away from her uncles home in Paris to evade a marriage being arranged for her in Shanghai. To prevent the union, she needs the help of her cousin Theo, who is working as a translator for the Chinese Labour Corps in the French countryside. In the town of Noyelles sur Mer, Camille Roussel is planning her escape from an