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Compared many times to "Memoirs of a Geisha" this book is centred around the Pavilion of the title, a high-class house of prostitutes in China well before the time of Mao.More than that, the book spans the life of Precious Orchid, who is telling her life story to her great-grand-daughter. From the moment when she found herself torn from her family her goal was to avenge her father's death and to find her mother again, but along the way she becomes accustomed to the high life and at times does so
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