The Last Rose of Shanghai

By Weina Dai Randel,

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In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and the freedom of music...

1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching…

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1 author picked The Last Rose of Shanghai as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This novel swept me away to Shanghai during World War II and learned much I didnt know about Shanghai, the Chinese culture at the time, and the consequences of World War II on the country and her people.

And above all, I kept turning the pages as I rooted for our brave Shanghai Heiress and a Jewish refugee, with nothing to his name, to consummate their forbidden love.

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