In Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk.

Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their ownTsukiyama''s graceful prose weaves the details of "the silk work" and Chinese village life into a story of courage and strength.

Format Häftad Omfång 278 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag St Martin's Press Utgivningsdatum 1993-10-15 ISBN 9780312099435