Issei The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924

Name: Issei The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924
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ISBN: 9780029153703

ISBN-10: 0029153700

ISBN-13: 9780029153703

Edition: N/A

Authors: Yuji Ichioka

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A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who escapes to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution. Sylvie de Rosiers, as the daughter of a rich planter and an enslaved woman, enjoys the comforts of a lady in 1791 Saint-Domingue society. But while she was born to privilege, she was never fully accepted by island elites. After a violent rebellion begins the Haitian Revolution, Sylvie and her brother leave their family and old lives behind to flee unwittingly into another uprising--in austere and radical Paris. Sylvie…

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List price: $32.95
Publisher: Free Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.892
Language: English