An allegorical novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and reporter. In a world in which whites have been enslaved by Orientals, a young girl named White Lotus is captured in Arizona and transported to China. After being sold into slavery, she survives a vast Chinese civil war and is emancipated upon its conclusion. Later she abandons her life as a tenant farmer and moves to the white district of a large city in the North of China in search of a better life.
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An allegorical novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and reporter. In a world in which whites have been enslaved by Orientals, a young girl named White Lotus is captured in Arizona and transported to China. After being sold into slavery, she survives a vast Chinese civil war and is emancipated upon its conclusion. Later she abandons her life as a tenant farmer and moves to the white district of a large city in the North of China in search of a better life.
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Add this copy of White Lotus to cart. $5.45, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brownstown, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1965 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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Add this copy of White Lotus to cart. $5.45, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1965 by Alfred A. Knopf.
Add this copy of White Lotus to cart. $5.45, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1965 by Alfred A. Knopf.
Add this copy of White Lotus to cart. $5.45, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1965 by Alfred A. Knopf.
Occurring in a post war setting in which the Chinese have beaten the US, a young teenage girl is shanghaied and taken to China where she grows up and matures as a slave. She is the narrator of the novel and Mr. Hersey"s depth of knowledge about the Chinese and their culture is quite apparent in this book. He approaches the issue of slavery of whites with the knowledge of the slave trade in America. As he says in the beginning it's like being in someone else's shoes. Mr. Hersey attention to detail in the language and the culture of China is also a plus for this book. He was born there. Could be compared to Jennings' Journeyer and other books of the far east such as Pearl Buck's The Good Earth and Hersey's own A Single Pebble. It is a disturbing book but places everything in perspective and is in my mind Hersey's masterpiece.
