Hwang Jin Yi

After the death of their father, two siblings are raised by their father's best friend. However, when one gets kidnapped just before her wedding, the other rises against the Manchus.

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

The story of Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.