In "Women of the Silk", Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women form a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamour in a vast silk factory from dawn until dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own. Tsukiyama's graceful prose weaves the details of "the silk work" and Chinese village life into a story of miraculous courage and strength.
- ISBN10 0312099436
- ISBN13 9780312099435
- Publish Date 15 October 1993 (first published 1 October 1991)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 13 December 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Edition 8th ed.
- Format Paperback (US Tall Rack)
- Pages 278
- Language English