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Publisher's Note: Short-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Prize, and arguably his most brilliant and searing novel yet, THE TENT OF ORANGE MIST deftly illuminates the plight of intellectuals and artists during a period of profound social and cultural upheaval. In December 1937, the Japanese invade Nanking, China, and against this backdrop of burning buildings and brutally arbitrary atrocities stands Scald Ibis, the teenage daughter of an eminent scholar. Separated from her family and struggling to survive, Ibis must prematurely transform into a woman, forced to work as a prostitute. One of the premier novelists of our time, West has captured the sweep and feel of a turbulent era, and the private triumphs and tragedies of which it was comprised.