Lives before us
Conlin, Juliet2019
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'The Lives Before Us' follows Esther and Kitty who, facing Nazi persecution, flee to Shanghai. April 1939 and, with their lives in Berlin and Vienna under threat, they are forced to make the same brutal choice. Flee Europe, or face the ghetto, incarceration, death. Shanghai, they've heard is a haven and so they secure passage to the other side of the world. What they find is a city of extremes - wealth, ppverty, decadence and disease - and of deep political instability. Then the Japanese military enters the fray and violence mounts. The women and thrown together in the city's most desperate times.
Main title:
Lives before us / Juliet Conlin.
Author:
Conlin, Juliet, author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Black & White Publishing, 2019.
Collation:
376 pages
ISBN:
9781785302305 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1939178