My life in 8 words: "Filled with love, luck and punctuated by tragedies"
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The Last Empress
With the beautiful, manipulative, powerful Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center, this is the story of the founding of modern China.
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Hannah Pakula Revealed
Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Hang in there
Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
A. Going to concerts, especially chamber music. I'm also addicted to playing scrablble and backgammon on line while listening to WQXR (NYC's classical music station). I can't listen when I'm writing, because then I tend to write in rhythm with the music.
Q. What are your 5 favorite songs?
A. "There's a Small Hotel," "I Get a Kick Out of You," the men's duet from "The Pearl Fishers," any of the songs from Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" or "The Youth's Magic Horn"
Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
A. Here in New York
Q. With whom in history do you most identify?
A. Queen Marie of Romania, Empress Frederick of Germany and/or Madame Chiang Kai-shek -- because I feel that although I never met any of them, I know them intimately.
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