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ABANDONED. Fiction, possibly. A man takes a long journey on a ship to america during the gold rush. Gets very sick and was hungry. Makes friends with the chef I think. His wife in the country he left had tony feet from binding.
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Chevonne
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Jan 26, 2019 07:37PM
A man whose wife is ill and can not walk due to years of feet binding, a cultural custom, leaves on a ship to America during the gold rush. Please help! I read this book when I was younger but never finished. I can not stop thinking about it! I read this about 10 years ago.
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They were Chinese, I assume?What language did you read it in, and what age group was it for?
Age group adult. I read it in English and I think Chinese, maybe Japanese.
The man and his wife were Chinese or Japanese I meant.
Definitely not the title but that is what was going on in the book.
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I'm pretty sure that I know the book! It must be "Daughter of fortune" by Isabell Allende (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...).The book is written from the perspective of Eliza Sommers and the Chinese doctor Tao Chien - the man whose first wife had had her feet bound. He and Eliza meet on the ship, where she is a blind passenger.
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