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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Kalla, Daniel.     Subjects     Antisemitism -- Fiction.     Jewish refugees -- Fiction.     World War, 1939-1945 -- China -- Fiction.     International relations and culture -- Fiction.     Shanghai (China) -- History -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kalla, Daniel.       by title:      The far side of the ...       by call number:      FICTION KAL     Search the Web     Kalla, Daniel.     Antisemitism -- Fiction.     Jewish refugees -- Fiction.     World War, 1939-1945 -- China -- Fiction.     International relations and culture -- Fiction.     Shanghai (China) -- History -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The far side of the sky : a novel of love and death in Shanhai / Daniel Kalla. by Kalla, Daniel. HarperCollins, c2011. Call #: FICTION KAL Subjects Antisemitism -- Fiction.   Jewish refugees -- Fiction.   World War, 1939-1945 -- China -- Fiction.   International relations and culture -- Fiction.   Shanghai (China) -- History -- Fiction. Series Kalla, Daniel. Shanghai trilogy ; 1. ISBN:  9780765332332 (hc.) 9781443402651 (trade pbk.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  449 p. ; 23 cm. Notes:  "A novel of love and death in Shanhai"--Cover. Summary:  "On November 9, 1938 -- Kristallnacht-- the Nazis unleash a night of terror across Germany that paves the way for Hitler's ' Final Solution.' Meanwhile, the Japanese Imperial Army continues to rampage through China and tighten its stranglehold on Shanghai, a besieged and divided city that becomes the last haven for thousands of desperate European Jews. Dr. Franz Adler, an Austrian Jew and renowned surgeon, is swept up in the wave of anti-Semitic violence washing over Vienna and flees to China with his daughter. There, at a Shanghai refugee hospital, Franz meets an enigmatic nurse, Soon Yi 'Sunny' Mah. The chemistry between them is intense and immediate, until Sunny's life is shattered when a drunken Japanese sailor attempts to rape her and murders her father. The danger escalates for Shanghai's Jewish refugee community as the Japanese ally themselves militarily with Germany and attack Pearl Harbor. Soon, the Japanese overrun the European enclaves within Shanghai. Facing starvation, disease and the threat of internment -- or worse -- Franz struggles to keep the refugee hospital open while protecting his own family and fights to outwit the Nazis and save the city's Jewish community from a terrible fate. The Far Side of the Sky focuses on a short but extraordinary period of Chinese, Japanese and Jewish Second World War history, where cultures converged and heroic sacrifices were part of the everyday quest for survival."--Publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Jewish fiction. Canadian fiction. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION KAL Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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