Bibliograph

Li Jun and the iron road, Anne Tait ; with Paulette Bourgeois

Type

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Li Jun and the iron road, Anne Tait ; with Paulette Bourgeois

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Li Jun and the iron road

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Anne Tait ; with Paulette Bourgeois

Summary

From the award-winning movie comes a story of courage and forbidden love. It's 1882 in southern China. Li Jun, a feisty homeless girl disguised as a boy called Little Tiger, works in a fireworks factory and yearns to sail across the ocean to the mysterious Gold Mountain in faraway British Columbia to find her long-lost father and fulfill her promise to her dying mother. She joins thousands of Chinese men blasting a path for the new railway through the 'impassable' Rocky Mountains. There she faces danger, deceit, and prejudice at every turn. Then, defying all the rules, she falls in love with James, the son of the railway tycoon. Should she reveal her true identity to him? Coming from such different worlds, could they make a life together?

Target audience

adult

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