MAUREEN LINDLEY

Thirteen-year-old Satomi Baker is used to being different. It is 1939 and being half-white, half-Japanese on the west coast of California gets you noticed. Although she has never felt she quite fits in, her striking looks have caught the eye of the most popular boy at school. When war is declared, Satomi s father Aaron is sent to the base at Pearl...

Peking, 1914. When the eight-year-old princess Eastern Jewel is caught spying on her father’s liaison with a servant girl, she is banished from the palace, sent to live with a powerful family in Japan. Renamed Yoshiko Kawashima, she quickly falls in love with her adoptive country, where she earns a scandalous reputation, taking fencing...

Peking, 1914. Eight-year-old Eastern Jewel peers from behind a screen as her father, Prince Su makes love to a servant girl. Caught spying by her thirteenth sister, Eastern Jewel's sexual curiosity sees her banished to live with distant relatives in Tokyo, then forced into a passionless marriage in freezing Mongolia. Increasingly isolated, at night...

Urzekająco zmysłowa, oparta na prawdziwych wydarzeniach opowieść o burzliwych losach Yoshiko Kawashimy, chińskiej księżniczki, zwanej też Klejnotem Wschodu – kobiety na tyle odważnej, upartej i ciekawej świata, by wyjść poza ramy obyczajów własnej epoki, uczynić swe życie ekscytującą przygodą i zostać... bezlitosnym japońskim szpiegiem. A wszystko...