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Descrizione libro Soft Cover. Condizione: new. Codice articolo 9781501154836
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Codice articolo 30333953-n
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!. Codice articolo OTF-S-9781501154836
Descrizione libro Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane 0.65. Book. Codice articolo BBS-9781501154836
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Brand New. Codice articolo 9781501154836
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters.In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for generationsuntil a stranger appears at the village gate in a jeep, the first automobile any of the villagers has ever seen. The strangers arrival marks the first entrance of the modern world in the lives of the Akha people. Slowly, Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, begins to reject the customs that shaped her early life. When she has a baby out of wedlockconceived with a man her parents consider a poor choiceshe rejects the tradition that would compel her to give the child over to be killed, and instead leaves her, wrapped in a blanket with a tea cake tucked in its folds, near an orphanage in a nearby city. As Li-yan comes into herself, leaving her insular village for an education, a business, and city life, her daughter, Haley, is raised in California by loving adoptive parents. Despite her privileged childhood, Haley wonders about her origins. Across the ocean Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. Over the course of years, each searches for meaning in the study of Puer, the tea that has shaped their familys destiny for centuries. A powerful story about circumstances, culture, and distance, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane paints an unforgettable portrait of a little known region and its people and celebrates the bond of family. Synopsis coming soon. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781501154836
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Book is in NEW condition. 1.04. Codice articolo 1501154834-2-1
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published 1.04. Codice articolo 353-1501154834-new
Descrizione libro paperback. Condizione: New. Language: ENG. Codice articolo 9781501154836
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Codice articolo ABLING22Oct2018170165396