Lin Tan

"EQUAL PARTS IMAGINATIVE, HEARTBREAKING, VIVID AND INTIMATE, LIN TAN IS A MASTERPIECE!"
"KOPPISCH WEAVES A PLOT THAT IS BOTH BEAUTIFUL AND DEADLY." Qijiang, Sichuan Province, China 1893.
Having been raped by the wealthy man her father arranged to have her marry, a naïve sixteen-year-old Chinese girl sets out across the world following the man she believes truly loves her, but is he simply an illusion? Along the way, she is compelled to rescue a very real and desperate young child who is about to be sold to a brothel in San Francisco's Chinatown. Nearly penniless and struggling to distance herself from her past while at the same time risking her life to protect a tiny victim of the Chinese slave trade, Lin Tan is forced to confront and adapt to a dangerous and unforgiving new world she does not understand and is not prepared for.