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Title	:	The Language of Threads (Women of the Silk #2)
Author	:	Gail Tsukiyama
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	September 21st 2000 by St. Martin's Griffin (first published September 8th 1999)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. China. Asia. Literature. Asian Literature. Novels

The Language of Threads (Women of the Silk #2) Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

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Readers of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young woman whose life is subject to cruel twists of fate, including the loss of her closest friend, Lin. Now we finally learn what happened to Pei, as she leaves the silk house for Hong Kong in the 1930s, arriving with a young orphan, Ji Shen, in her care. Her first job, in the home of a wealthy family, ends in disgrace, but soon Pei and Ji Shen find a new life in the home of Mrs. Finch, a British ex-patriate who welcomes them as the daughters she never had. Their idyllic life is interrupted, however, by war, and the Japanese occupation. Pei is once again forced to make her own way, struggling to survive and to keep her extended family alive as well. In this story of hardship and survival, Tsukiyama paints a portrait of women fighting the forces of war and time to make a life for themselves.

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Original Title:	The Language of Threads
ISBN:	0312267568 (ISBN13: 9780312267568)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Women of the Silk #2

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My only complaint is that this book wasn't published in one volume with 'Women of the Silk', because both books didn't really feel like separate tales. Rather, they felt more like two halves of one tale, especially because of the way 'Women of the Silk' ended and this one begun. Still, it was a lovely and poignant tale as Pei has to deal with the tumult of the Japanese invading China (this book starts in the late 1930's) and shows that even no matter how tenacious and determined some people are

Now we finally learn what happened to Pei, as she leaves the silk house for Hong Kong in the 1930s, arriving with a young orphan, Ji Shen, in her care. Her first job, in the home of a wealthy family, ends in disgrace, but soon Pei and Ji Shen find a new life in the home of Mrs. Finch, a British ex-patriate who welcomes them as the daughters she never had. Their idyllic life is interrupted, however, by war, and the Japanese occupation.Pei, a character and a women you will not forget. Her life is



Pei, as known in the first novel women of the Silk, leaves the silk house for Hong Kong in the 1930s, arriving with a young orphan, Ji Shen, in her care. Her first job ends in disgrace, but soon Pei and Ji Shen find a new life in the home of Mrs. Finch, a British ex-patriate who welcomes them as the daughters. Their life is interrupted by war and the Japanese occupation. Pei is again forced to make her own way, struggling to survive and to keep her extended family alive. A wonderful novel as a

Last year I got the opportunity to hear Tsukiyama speak at a banquet for the Willamette Writers in Portland. She is half Japanese-American and half Chinese-American, and most of her books center around Japan or China. After hearing her speak, I read her first novel, "Women of the Silk" (about women who worked in the silk factories in China) and loved it. "The Language of Threads" picks up where "Women of the Silk" left off.I can see that Tsukiyama's writing has only improved in the interval

Simple, straightforward, competently written, but lacks conviction. There's nothing to set the book apart from all the Asian women's tales of woes that have been told under many forms already. Pei's identity as a silk factory worker serves barely as background for her new life in Hong Kong, and what little we learned of her work at the silk factory it was thanks to scant flashbacks - the lack of research making this angle of the book insufficient and impersonal. The many POVs make me feel like

This is a sequel of sorts to Women of the Silk which follows the story of Pei. She leaves the silk factory for Hong Kong in the 1920's accompanied by an young orphan Ji-Shen. The story continues through the time of Pei's employment for a dominant, arrogant Chinese family, then a wonderful English woman who supports and befriends Pei. This life is then interrupted with Japanese occupation and Pei is left on her own again. Pei uses the jewels that Mrs. Finch left to her to start her own shop, with