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Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (2009, Hardcover)

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Narrative Type
Fiction
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Type
Novel
Features
Dust Jacket
ISBN
9781400067114
EAN
9781400067114
Publication Year
2009
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Shanghai Girls
Author
Lisa See
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Sagas, Family Life, Literary, Asian American, Historical

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In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father's prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn't be more different: Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America. In Los Angeles they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with the strangers they have married, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life even as they fight against discrimination, brave Communist witch hunts, and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown's old ways and rules. At its heart, Shanghai Girls is a story of sisters: Pearl and May are inseparable best friends who share hopes, dreams, and a deep connection, but like sisters everywhere they also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. They love each other, but each knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt the other the most. Along the way they face terrible sacrifices, make impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they areShanghai girls.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400067111
ISBN-13
9781400067114
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70931723

Product Key Features

Book Title
Shanghai Girls
Author
Lisa See
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Sagas, Family Life, Literary, Asian American, Historical
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction

Dimensions

Item Length
9.6in.
Item Height
1.1in.
Item Width
6.4in.
Item Weight
21 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3569.E3334s53 2009
Reviews
"See is a gifted writer, and inShanghai Girlsshe again explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience."-USA Today "A buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood."Booklist "A rich work. . . . as compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey."-Denver Post "The glamour of prewar Shanghai is recalled in Lisa See's deftly plottedShanghai Girls."-Vogue "Splendid"-More, Praise forPeony in Love: "Accomplished . . . with healthy doses of suspense and romance. Read me, love me, discuss me, this book screams." -San Francisco Chronicle, "See is a gifted writer, and in Shanghai Girls she again explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience."- USA Today "A buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood." Booklist "A rich work…as compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey."- Denver Post "The glamour of prewar Shanghai is recalled in Lisa See's deftly plotted Shanghai Girls ." - Vogue "Splendid"- More "An engrossing tale of two sisters."Time.com " Shanghai Girls is one of those books I could not wait to continue reading, because her characters' stories are so compellingly told."- St. Louis Dispatch "As in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love , she has in her latest novel created ordinary women who, through willfulness and resiliency, accomplish extraordinary things…See, whose writing is as graceful as these ''beautiful girls,'' pulls off another exceptional novel." Miami Herald, "A buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood."Booklist "A rich work. . . . as compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey."-Denver Post, "A buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood."Booklist "A rich work. . . . as compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey."-Denver Post "The glamour of prewar Shanghai is recalled in Lisa See's deftly plottedShanghai Girls."-Vogue "Splendid"-More, "See is a gifted writer, and inShanghai Girlsshe again explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience."-USA Today "A buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood."Booklist "A rich work…as compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey."-Denver Post "The glamour of prewar Shanghai is recalled in Lisa See's deftly plottedShanghai Girls."-Vogue "Splendid"-More "An engrossing tale of two sisters."Time.com "Shanghai Girlsis one of those books I could not wait to continue reading, because her characters' stories are so compellingly told."-St. Louis Dispatch "As inSnow Flower and the Secret FanandPeony in Love, she has in her latest novel created ordinary women who, through willfulness and resiliency, accomplish extraordinary things…See, whose writing is as graceful as these ''beautiful girls,'' pulls off another exceptional novel."Miami Herald From the Hardcover edition.
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2008-049245
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
22
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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