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White ghost girls

The children of a war-photographer father and beautiful but remote mother, Frankie and Kate, two American sisters, grow up in Hong Kong during the turmoil of the Maoist revolution of the late 1960s.

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  • "The children of a war-photographer father and beautiful but remote mother, Frankie and Kate, two American sisters, grow up in Hong Kong during the turmoil of the Maoist revolution of the late 1960s."@en
  • "The children of a war-photographer father and beautiful but remote mother, Frankie and Kate, two American sisters, grow up in Hong Kong during the turmoil of the Maoist revolution of the late 1960s."
  • "Two sisters growing together and apart into their emerging selves, one pulsing with curiosity and risk, the other watchful, all eyes and ears. Immersed in the heat and colours of 1960s Hong Kong, shimmering between sea and sky, this is a world of fishermen and plotting insurgents, temple gods and ghosts, of blinding light and dark, dark waters. Extrovert Frankie is a tearaway trying to win her parents' attention. While Frankie's behaviour becomes ever more outrageous, her reticent sister, Kate, retreats into a quiet desperation. When she does act, she endangers all to save just one soul - Frankie's."@en
  • "Adult/High School Kate and Frankie are American girls growing up in Hong Kong during the summer of 1967. Their father, a war photographer for Time magazine, can visit from Vietnam only sporadically. In the political turbulence of Mao's China and the United States's involvement in Vietnam, Hong Kong is hardly a safe haven, and their mother, overwhelmed by reality, retreats into the isolation of her painting. The sisters are supervised primarily by their amah."
  • "Two sisters growing together and apart into their emerging selves, one pulsing with curiosity and risk, the other watchful, all eyes and ears. Immersed in the heat and colours of 1960s Hong Kong, shimmering between sea and sky, this is a world of fishermen and plotting insurgents, temple gods and ghosts, of blinding light and dark, dark waters. Frankie is a tearaway, putting out for boys and men in a defiant attempt to win her parents' attention. An ordinary teenager in many ways, in an extraordinary setting: the threat of communist China bubbles at the borders and the carnage in Vietnam that."@en
  • "The story of two sisters growing up in Hong Kong in the 1960s - They have widely differing personalities but still share a very close bond."
  • "Two sisters - one theatrically bold, one cautious. Two Chinas - one ancient and timeless, one modern and urgent. Two romances - one wordless, one clamorous. One summer in Hong Kong in the 1960s sees their father called away to the carnage in Vietnam."@en

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  • "Large type books"
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  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en

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  • "White ghost girls [LP]"
  • "White ghost girls"@en
  • "White ghost girls"
  • "White Ghost Girls"@en

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