Saints
Gene Luen Yang
Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN:
- 9781596436893
- Published:
- 01 Oct 2013
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Dimensions:
- 176 pages - 216 x 152mm
- Series:
- Boxers & Saints
Categories:
From American Born Chinese author Gene Luen Yang: an innovative look at China's Boxer Rebellion told from two points of view, in two companion volumes. China, 1898. An unwanted fourth daughter, Four-Girl isn't even given a proper name by her family. She finds friendship—and a name, Vibiana—in the most unlikely of places: Christianity. But China is a dangerous place for Christians. The Boxer Rebellion is murdering Westerners and Chinese Christians alike. Torn between her nation and her Christian friends, Vibiana will have to decide where her true loyalties lie . . . and whether she is willing to die for her faith.
Boxers & Saints is a groundbreaking novel in two volumes presenting two parallel tales about young people caught up on opposite sides of a violent rift. Saints tells Vibiana's story, and the companion volume, Boxers, tells the story of Little Bao, a young man who joins the Boxer Rebellion.