Box with the Sunflower Clasp

Name: Box with the Sunflower Clasp
Brand: Icon Books
SKU: 9781785789823
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Uncovering a Jewish Family's Flight to Wartime Shanghai

Автор: Rachel Meller

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Icon Books

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''A transfixingly readable amalgam of memoir and history... Superbly written and researched.... [Mel...

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Автор

Rachel Meller

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2024

страници

336

EAN

9781785789823

Enbook ID

44628820

Издател

Icon Books

Теглоt

298

Размери

129 x 198

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''A transfixingly readable amalgam of memoir and history... Superbly written and researched.... [Meller] has turned the raw material of her life into literature''
Ian Thomson, author of Primo Levi

Rachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool, unemotional woman with a drawling Viennese-Californian accent, a cigarette in her hand. But when Lisbeth died, she left Rachel an intricately carved Chinese box with a sunflower clasp. Inside the box were photographs, letters and documents that led Rachel to uncover a story she had never known: that of a passionate Jewish teenager growing up in elegant Vienna, who was caught up by war, and forced to flee to Shanghai.

Far from home, in a strange city, Lisbeth and her parents build a new life - a life of small joys and great hardship, surrounded by many others who, like them, have fled Hitler and the Nazis. 1930s Shanghai is a metropolis where the old rules do not apply - a city of fabulous wealth and crushing poverty, where disease is rife, and gangsters rub shoulders with rich emigrés; where summer brings unspeakable heat, and winter is bitterly cold; and where European refugees build community and, maybe, a young woman can find love.

Set against a backdrop of the war in the Far East, The Box with the Sunflower Clasp is a sweeping family memoir that tells the hidden history of the Jews of Shanghai. Rachel Meller writes with elegance and insight as she examines what it means to survive, and what the legacy of displacement and war might mean for the generation that comes afterwards.

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