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- Title: Night in Shanghai
- Author : Nicole Mones
- Release Date : January 04, 2014
- Genre: African American,Books,Fiction & Literature,Romance,Historical,Historical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1889 KB
Description
This novel of an American musician caught up in the dangers of 1930s China is āhistorical fiction at its bestā (Alan Cheuse, NPRās All Things Considered).
In 1936, classical pianist Thomas Greene is recruited to Shanghai to lead a jazz orchestra of fellow African American expats. After being flat broke in segregated Baltimore, he is now living in a mansion with servants of his own, the toast of a city obsessed with music, money, pleasure, and power, even as it ignores the rising winds of war.
Song Yuhua is refined and educated, and has been bonded since age eighteen to Shanghaiās most powerful crime boss in payment for her fatherās gambling debts. Outwardly submissive, she burns with rageāand risks her life spying on her master for the Communist Party.
Only when Shanghai is shattered by the Japanese invasion do Song and Thomas find their way to each other. Though their union is forbidden, neither can back down from it in the turbulent years of occupation and resistance that follow. Torn between music and survival, freedom and commitment, love and world war, they are borne on an irresistible riff of melody and improvisation to Night in Shanghaiās final, impossible choice.
This stunningly researched novel that ākeeps the suspense mounting until the endā not only tells the forgotten story of black musicians in the Chinese jazz age, but also weaves in a startling true tale of Holocaust heroism little-known in the West (Kirkus Reviews).
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