The Faraway Bride
Автор:
Stella BensonЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2026-01-01Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
112
Description
For unconvincing reasons Old Sergei Malinin has gone blind; the family’s woes are compounded when their shop in Chi-tao-kou, Manchuria is raided by the Red Army. They’re left relying on what little money can be scraped together from their daughter Anna’s sewing and their son Seryozha’s timberwork. Luckily, Old Sergei, ever the businessman, has remembered that ten years ago he lent his old friend Gavril Ilitch Isaev two hundred yen, a sum that, with interest, would now be immensely valuable to the Malinins. The money is in Seoul, but a three week walk through the Korean mountains to a city sounds like the perfect adventure to Seryozha, and the unexpected appearance of an English-educated Chinese lawyer who happens to know the way is enough to...
