Called on to care for the ambassador at the Italian embassy, Lian encounters her handsome sailor, Giacomo. The course of Lian’s life is altered by this trip to the palace, not by witnessing life in that rarified environment, but by the brazen yet in some ways innocent kiss by an Italian sailor. Even the Empress Dowager notices her differences, stating she would be quite beautiful if it weren’t for those imperfections. Though she is confident in her skills and knowledge, she is very insecure about her “ugly, unbound feet” and her green eyes, which singles her out as impure. When he is called upon by the Empress Dowager to treat the Italian Ambassador at her summer palace, he brings Lian as his assistant. He trains his daughter so that she may one day become a doctor in her own right. Even though he’s a “foreign devil” practicing a blend of western and Chinese medicine, his services are much in demand. Lian loves her widower father and the gift of knowledge he has given her. It’s rich with history, using China in the late 1800s as a backdrop, which adds additional drama to the story of a mixed-race girl apprenticing with her Swiss doctor father.
This is an epic tale, as large and encompassing and treacherous as Homer’s The Odyssey, but with more heart and heartache. Even though he’s a “foreign devil” p The Secret Language of Women by Nina Romano lives up to the promise of its intriguing title. The Secret Language of Women by Nina Romano lives up to the promise of its intriguing title. But her quest for freedom comes at a costly price: The life of someone close to her, lost in a raging typhoon, a grueling journey to the Yun-kang Caves, and a desperate search for beauty and love in the midst of brutality.more Rebelling against the life forced upon her, she empowers herself to act out against the injustice and becomes the master of her own destiny. It is in Nushu, the women’s secret writing, that she chronicles her life and her hopes for the future. Forbidden from pursuing her chosen profession as a healer, and despised because she does not have bound feet, she is forced to work in a cloisonné factory while her in-laws raise her daughter, Ya Chen. Through voyage and adventure, their love intensifies, but soon is severed by Lian’s dutiful promise as the wife to another. Gianluca Brasolin, fluent in Italian, to tend the Italian ambassador, at the Summer Palace of Empress Dowager, where she meets and falls in love with Giacomo. When Lian is seventeen years old, she accompanies her Swiss father, Dr. Gianluca Brasolin, fluent in Italian, to tend the Italian ambassador, at the Summer Palace Set in China in the late 1800’s, The Secret Language of Women tells the story of star-crossed lovers, Zhou Bin Lian, a Eurasian healer, and Giacomo Scimenti, an Italian sailor, driven apart by the Boxer Rebellion. Set in China in the late 1800’s, The Secret Language of Women tells the story of star-crossed lovers, Zhou Bin Lian, a Eurasian healer, and Giacomo Scimenti, an Italian sailor, driven apart by the Boxer Rebellion.
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