Empress Orchid - Anchee Min torrent

Category: Historical Fiction, Novel, Political
Language: English
Keywords: 1800's China Empress Dowager Cixi Empress Orchid Qing Dynasty

Written by Anchee Min
Read by Alexandra O’Karma
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

The critically acclaimed author, Anchee Min, paints a fresh portrait of the last Chinese empress in this brilliantly fictionalized tale set during the waning days of the empire.

Seventeen-year-old Orchid belongs to an aristocratic family that has fallen on hard times. Unexpectedly, she is chosen as one of the emperor’s lesser concubines. Within the Forbidden City are thousands of women hoping to bear the emperor a son and become his empress. Orchid, determined and resourceful, schemes her way into the royal bed and seduces the emperor. But as the opium trade erodes the might of the Ch’ing dynasty, Orchid find herself at the center of a crumbling nation.

Audio Release Date:
February 12 2004

17 hrs and 54 mins