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Women of the Silk

A Novel

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Women of the Silk

By: Gail Tsukiyama
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
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In Women of the Silk, Gail Tsukiyama takes listeners back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amid the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk.

Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own.

Tsukiyama's graceful prose weaves the details of "the silk work" and Chinese village life into a story of courage and strength.

©1991 Gail Tsukiyama (P)2019 Tantor Fiction Historical Fiction Village China Sisterhood

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"Enlivened with an engrossing richness of detail...succinct and delicate." (New York Times Book Review)
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I love this author but couldn’t get into this one due to the terrible narration. For some reason the narrator likes to speak in a high-pitched, squealing voice for several characters. It’s very jarring and unnecessary like nails on a chalkboard.

Absolutely terrible narration

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It highlights the decisions made during times of hardships. Both families and their daughters were forced to live with the consequences of whatever fell. The strength of young girls and women forced into the new environment to work and send home money is awe-inspiring and often still tragic. Yet, these women keep going. They learn to rely on each other and form a new family - one stronger than the ties of blood.

Another beautiful historical fiction!

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wonderful to listen to makes you want to hear more and more...you just don't want this book to end or if it must; it Must have a sequel. That it doesn't leaves one feeling cheated of the Rest of This Story.

beautiful writing

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The Bad Old Days

Women's stories in 1930s China - never a happy time or environment for females.

Narration by Emily Woo Zeller is good.

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