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"The Orchid Empress" by author Anchee Min tells the powerful and complex life story of Zhen Ying, a powerful and ambitious woman who, growing up in a rural Chinese village, tries to find her way in a turbulent period of Chinese history.
The novel takes place in the 19th century, and tells the story of two young friends, the fourteen-year-old Pole Stanislaw and his eight-year-old friend Nel from England, who were kidnapped in Sudan by the rebels of the Muslim priest Mahdi.