# The House of Wives

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- Book: [The House of Wives](https://www.bookquiver.com/simon-choa-johnston/the-house-of-wives) ([The House of Wives.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/simon-choa-johnston/the-house-of-wives.md))
- Authors: [Simon Choa-Johnston](https://www.bookquiver.com/simon-choa-johnston)
- Publisher: penguin_canada
- ISBN: 978-06-7006-947-7
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2016-05-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Two women compete for the affections of their opium merchant husband in a tale of friendship, fortune and rivalry in colonial Hong Kong In 1862, a young Jew from Calcutta named Emanuel Belilios leaves...