A Certain Smile Audiobook (Free)

A bittersweet tale of an ideal but impossible love, set against the teeming, organic energy and hidden risks of contemporary China. Miranda Graham, a clothing designer as well as the widowed mom of two teenagers, travels to China to work with the factories that may produce her designs. Sheltered, uncertain of herself, Miranda offers always stayed close to her parents and her home. Initially overwhelmed by the chaotic foreignness of China, she shortly discovers what she under no circumstances expected or could have about A Certain Smile thought possible: a passionate, all-consuming like. Yuan Li, son of a Chinese language mother and an American soldier, acquired his family transformed upside down from the Cultural Revolution. Now, in the brand new China, he owns a large and successful building company. What starts as a friendship based on attention and attraction soon blossoms into a romance passionate more than enough to topple the ethnic wall that divides them. They spend every obtainable moment together before realities of China – an intrusive government, corrupt entrepreneurs, and Li’s wildly ambitious boy – test their love in the crucible of politics, nationality, and family members loyalties.