Becoming Madame Mao A Novel.

From the national bestselling author of Red Azalea. "Extraordinary . . . Min lets [Madame Mao] be seen as never before. Bottom line: riveting" ( People ). In a sweeping, erotically charged story, Anchee Min creates a finely nuanced portrait of one of the most fascinating, and vilified, women of the twentieth century. Madame Mao is almost universally known as the "white-boned demon"-ambitious, vindictive, and cruel-whose bid to succeed he...