A NOVEL WITH A SOCIAL MESSAGE IS NOMINATED FOR THREE TOP LITERARY AWARDS

“We are very proud of both the literary and the story-telling qualities of our newest title,” said Jim Walters, VP Operations of Windsprint Press/ Mecox Hudson about CHINA DOLL, a novel by Talia Carner, released October 15th, 2006. “The author has created a multi-leveled novel that combines subjects as different as the music industry and U.S.-Sino relationship juxtaposed against the horror of infanticide in China.”

No novels have dealt with the quagmire the American government and U.S. corporations face in the duality of trying to appease China while containing its ruthless practices. Yet, this is the background of a dramatic psychological suspense of a celebrity trying to adopt a Chinese baby.

Released in paperback [304 pages, $13.95; ISBN 0-9773821-2-5] and containing an extensive Reading Group Guide, CHINA DOLL has been praised as “Spicy, worldly, and meticulously researched,” “intricate, psychologically-nuanced,” and “page-turning, globe-spanning adventure.” It has been described by a reviewer as a cross between “Da Vinci Code and War and Peace.”

“I hope to open a dialogue about gendercide worldwide. The nominations of my book to these prestigious literary awards may help do that,” Carner says. “Behind the mass of abandoned Chinese babies available for adoption there are Chinese parents who are alive and capable of caring for them. The Chinese government’s complicity in gendercide is the greatest human rights abuses on our globe. The million babies destined for death each year in China alone have no voice—and no one to speak for them.”

In CHINA DOLL, the life of an American pop icon on a goodwill concert tour in China is thrown out of orbit when a baby is thrust into her arms. Becoming exposed to the horrific conditions in Chinese orphanages and desiring to adopt this baby, the protagonist finds herself on a collision course with both U.S. and China’s governments—as well as with her record label company that has business interests in this vast land. Against an astonishingly picturesque background, Carner highlights the thought-provoking, unthinkable personal sacrifices of individuals as the Chinese nation forfeits its glorious past and art while struggling to feed its people and move forward.

For Additional Information, Please check:
The author’s website at: www.TaliaCarner.com
And the Press Room at: www.MecoxHudson.com
10/06