White Lotus Author:John Hersey HERSEY'S FINEST NOVEL--LIKELY TO HAUNT YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR DAYS...A HUGE, GREAT ACHIEVEMENT, A SPLENDID HUMAN DOCUMENT, AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE! --Boston Sunday Herald — The time was the twentieth century. The place was Arizona. She was a pretty fifteen-year-old white girl, deep in her childish dreams, when they came for her in the nigh... more »t. Still in her pajamas, they marched her with all the other men and women of the town to the sea. Then they herded her into the hold of a ship bound for China to live out the rest of her life as a slave, raped, humiliated and unspeakably degraded.« less