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Empress Orchid
- Narrated by: Alexandra O'Karma
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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.
A colorful depiction of one of history's least understood women, The Empress Orchid is another enthralling masterpiece for Anchee Min.
What the critics say
"Powerful and brilliantly conceived....[An] insightful, magnetic, and quietly revolutionary resurrection of a remarkable woman." (Booklist)
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- 2023-10-19
narrators voice is annoying
I could hear the breathing, and the narrator licking her lips as she read it was very annoying and distracting. The book well, it had great history and it was long and drawn out. I would not recommend this book
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