Once Our Lives: Life, Death and Love in the Middle Kingdom Volume 60

""Once Our Lives" is the true story of four generations of Chinese women and how their lives were threatened by powerful and cruel ancient traditions, historic upheavals, and a man whose fate-cursed by an ancient superstition--dramatically altered their destinies. The book takes the reader on an exotic journey filled with luxurious banquets, lost jewels, babies sold in opium dens, kidnappings by pirates, and a desperate flight from death in the desert--seen through the eyes of a man for whom the truth would spell disaster and a lonely, beautiful girl with three identities."--