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Title: Empress Orchid
Author: Anchee Min
Narrator: Alexandra O'Karma
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-12-04
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 372 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Orchid belongs to an aristocratic family that has fallen on hard times. Unexpectedly, she is chosen as one of the emperor's lesser concubines. Within the Forbidden City are thousands of women hoping to bear the emperor a son and become his empress. Orchid, determined and resourceful, schemes her way into the royal bed and seduces the emperor. But as the opium trade erodes the might of the Ch'ing dynasty, Orchid find herself at the center of a crumbling nation.
A colorful depiction of one of history's least understood women, The Empress Orchid is another enthralling masterpiece for Anchee Min.
Critic Reviews:
"Powerful and brilliantly conceived....[An] insightful, magnetic, and quietly revolutionary resurrection of a remarkable woman." (Booklist)
