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Empress Orchid

Min, Anchee, 1957- Book on CD - 2004 BOCD Fiction 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Unabridged.
Compact disc.
Narrated by Alexandra O'Karma.
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.

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PUBLISHED
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 15 sound discs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1402574975 :

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
O'Karma, Alexandra.

SUBJECTS
Tz{u2018}u-hsi, -- Empress dowager of China, -- 1835-1908 -- Fiction.
Empresses -- Fiction.
China -- History -- Guangxu, 1875-1908 -- Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.