Author : Jamie Ford
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN 13 : 074902285X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Love and Other Consolation Prizes by : Jamie Ford
Download or read book Love and Other Consolation Prizes written by Jamie Ford and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1909, Seattle. At the World's Fair a half-Chinese boy called Ernest Young is raffled off as a prize. He ends up working in a brothel in Seattle's famed Red Light District and falls in love with Maisie, the daughter of a flamboyant madam, and Fahn, a karayuki-san, a Japanese maid sold into servitude.On the eve of the new World's Fair in 1962, Ernest looks back on the past, the memories he made with his beloved wife while his daughter, a reporter, begins to unravel their tragic past.