God of Luck

"Ah Lung and his wife Bo See live in a village whose inhabitants raise silkworms for a living. It is the nineteenth century and marriages are arranged by families, but their relationship is one of true love." "Then, like hundreds of thousands of other Chinese men, Ah Lung is kidnapped, enslaved, and shipped across the Pacific Ocean to work the deadly guano "mines" off the coast of Peru. Ah Lung and Bo See are determined to be reunited." "Ah Lung must employ ingenuity simply to survive the harsh conditions below deck on the slave ship and then the even more deadly perils of digging guano if he is to escape from harsh servitude and imprisonment on the guano island and make his way home. Bo See uses her secret skills to earn ransom money for his redemption." "Husband and wife do all they can, but it is the God of Luck who presides over the ultimate fate of these two young lovers."--BOOK JACKET.McCunn, Ruthanne Lum is the author of 'God of Luck ', published 2007 under ISBN 9781569474662 and ISBN 1569474664.