White Poppy: The Smuggler and the Whore

by Paul Whiteside

What words are spoken of in silence? Can one grasp the wind? A flower and not a flower; of mist yet not of mist; at midnight she was there; she went as daylight shone. She came for a little while was like a dream of spring, and then, as morning clouds that vanish traceless, she was gone. Gwong-Jau (Canton), China, July 1834: wealthy British-Sicilian opium smuggler Charles Paul Sansovino (28 years) falls for exquisite, snake tattooed Chinese boat-girl...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503355144
• ISBN13: 9781503355149
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"