The middle heart : a novel / by Bette Bao Lord.
Author: Lord, Bette.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1996.
ISBN: 0394534328 (hardcover)
Description: 370 p. ; 25 cm.
Subject: Friendship China Fiction.
China History 20th century Fiction.
Historical fiction. gsafd
Summary: A historical novel on China in the form of a love triangle. It begins in the 1930s when three children make a vow of brotherhood. One is the son of a noble, the second a servant boy, the third a grave digger's daughter with whom the boys will fall in love. The novel follows their respective fortunes during the Communist Revolution--prison, power, prison--at once competing and helping each other. By the author of Spring Moon.