Shanghai A Novel

Joseph Kanon

eBook - 2024

"A steamy, thrilling crime story" (The Washington Post) from New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon set in pre-World War II Shanghai, where glamour and squalor exist side by side and murder is just the cost of doing business.After the violence of Kristallnacht (1938), European Jews, now desperate to emigrate, found the consular doors of the world closed to them. Only one port required no entry visa: Shanghai, a self-governing Western trading enclave in what was technically Chinese territory, a political anomaly that became an escape hatch—if you were lucky enough to afford a ticket on one of the great Lloyd liners sailing to the East and safety. Daniel Lohr was one of the lucky ones—lucky enough to have escaped the Ges...tapo when his colleagues in the resistance were caught, lucky to have an uncle waiting in Shanghai, lucky to find a casual shipboard flirtation that turns unexpectedly passionate. But even lucky refugees have to...

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Published
Scribner
Language
English
Main Author
Joseph Kanon
Online Access
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size3 GB
ISBN9781668006443
Release Date6/25/2024
Kindle Book
ASINB0CL5FLVLH
Release Date6/25/2024
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781668006443
Release Date6/25/2024