The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure

A group of foreigners in the northeastern town of Shishan finds the status quo upset when Helen Frances, a young woman with a middle class upbringing but a fatal flaw, arrives and falls in love with the Hon Henry Manners.

The most astonishing range of characters awaits you in this novel; the wicked brothel-keeper Madam Liu and her sadistic son Ren Ren, the pragmatic, rational missionary Dr Airton, the American zealot Septimus Harding, the equivocal Mandarin. Not to mention the wonderfully complicated anti-hero Henry Manners, the prostitutes Fan Yimei and Shen Ping, the bandit Iron Man Wang, the Mongolian shaman. And the ingénue, Helen Frances herself, whose innocence covers an unorthodox curiosity.

Title - The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure

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Author - Adam Williams

ISBN 13 - 9780340827871

Imprint - Hodder Paperback

Publisher - Hodder & Stoughton

Date Published - 12/04/2004

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No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 130 x 198 x 52mm

Weight - 500 g

Languages - English