JAPAN ALPHA INDUSTRY CAD DATA.com. A sweeping novel, starting at the end of World W ar II and spanning several tumultuous decades of Maos rule, from one of China's best female novelists In the last days of World War II, the Japanese occupation of Manchuria has collapsed. As the Chinese move in, the elders of the Japanese settler village of Sakito decide to preserve their honor by killing all the villagers in an act of mass suicide. Only 16 year old Tatsuru escapes. But Tatsuru's trials have just begun. As she flees, she falls into the hands of human traffickers. She is sold to a wealthy Chinese family, where she becomes Duohe the clandestine second wife to the only son, and the secret bearer of his children. Against all odds, Duohe forms an unlikely friendship w ith the first wife Xiaohuan, united by the unshakeable bonds of motherhood and family. Spanning several tumultuous decades of Maos rule, Little Aunt Crane is a novel about love, bravery and survival, and how humanity endures in the most unlikely of circumstances.