The Resource The empress lover, Linda Jaivin
The empress lover, Linda Jaivin
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The item The empress lover, Linda Jaivin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- 'Stories are the only thing that defy death. Stories are truth. I hereby give you mine...' Peking, 1944: Sir Edmund Backhouse is a man of many parts. A polyglot scholar. An effete homosexual. A genius of perversity, a forger, arms salesman, occasional spy and fantasist. Also, if he is to be believed, the onetime lover of the redoubtable Empress Dowager of China, a woman many decades his senior. In his declining years, tended by his friend, Dr Hoeppli, he writes his memoir - 'a wild tale', as he calls it, 'far-fetched and fantastical'- of his affair with the Dowager Empress. Beijing, 2014: Linnie is an Australian woman of uncertain provenance struggling to make a living in Beijing. A Sinophile, a translator of film subtitles, the author of an unpublished novel about Backhouse called The Empress Lover. One day, she receives an intriguingly old-fashioned and formal invitation from a Professor H, an invitation that promises to reveal long hidden secrets of her family...And so two worlds collide. An enchantingly slippery, sinuous, playful - and ultimately very moving - novel of love, loss, identity and history from one of Australia's finest novelists
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- xxi, 309 pages (large print)
- Note
- Originally published: Sydney, NSW : Fourth Estate, 2014
- Isbn
- 9781459680180
- Label
- The empress lover
- Title
- The empress lover
- Statement of responsibility
- Linda Jaivin
- Subject
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- trueHistorical fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueRevolutions -- China
- Romance fiction
- trueSecrets
- trueSexuality
- trueSinologists
- trueWomen rulers -- China
- trueAbandoned girls
- Australians -- China -- Fiction
- trueAustralians in China
- Biographers -- Fiction
- trueBirthfathers
- trueChina -- History -- 20th century
- China -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Empresses -- China -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Large print books
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 'Stories are the only thing that defy death. Stories are truth. I hereby give you mine...' Peking, 1944: Sir Edmund Backhouse is a man of many parts. A polyglot scholar. An effete homosexual. A genius of perversity, a forger, arms salesman, occasional spy and fantasist. Also, if he is to be believed, the onetime lover of the redoubtable Empress Dowager of China, a woman many decades his senior. In his declining years, tended by his friend, Dr Hoeppli, he writes his memoir - 'a wild tale', as he calls it, 'far-fetched and fantastical'- of his affair with the Dowager Empress. Beijing, 2014: Linnie is an Australian woman of uncertain provenance struggling to make a living in Beijing. A Sinophile, a translator of film subtitles, the author of an unpublished novel about Backhouse called The Empress Lover. One day, she receives an intriguingly old-fashioned and formal invitation from a Professor H, an invitation that promises to reveal long hidden secrets of her family...And so two worlds collide. An enchantingly slippery, sinuous, playful - and ultimately very moving - novel of love, loss, identity and history from one of Australia's finest novelists
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- 10316385
- Cataloging source
- NSL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jaivin, Linda
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
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- Australians
- Man-woman relationships
- Biographers
- Empresses
- Family secrets
- China
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The empress lover, Linda Jaivin
- Note
- Originally published: Sydney, NSW : Fourth Estate, 2014
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000053490254
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- xxi, 309 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781459680180
- Label
- The empress lover, Linda Jaivin
- Note
- Originally published: Sydney, NSW : Fourth Estate, 2014
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000053490254
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- xxi, 309 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781459680180
Subject
- trueHistorical fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueRevolutions -- China
- Romance fiction
- trueSecrets
- trueSexuality
- trueSinologists
- trueWomen rulers -- China
- trueAbandoned girls
- Australians -- China -- Fiction
- trueAustralians in China
- Biographers -- Fiction
- trueBirthfathers
- trueChina -- History -- 20th century
- China -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Empresses -- China -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Large print books
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