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As in the novels People with four fingers and The fifth finger, Miodrag Bulatović is obsessed in this book with the monstrous tragedy of emigrants, people outside all worlds, that is, people uprooted from their people, origin, name and life.
The novel is a fictionalized biography of Empress Dowager Cixi (Tzu Hsi), the last real ruler of China. The work follows her rise from a third-rate concubine in the Forbidden City to de facto ruler of the Qing Dynasty Chinese Empire.
The novel is based on the writer's experiences in Shanghai during World War II and in the Civilian Collection Center in Lunghua, where he was interned from 1942 to 1945. Steven Spielberg made a film of the same name based on the script by Tom Stoppard.