Japanese Fiction Sale!
 
 

Special Offers see all

Enter to WIN!

Weekly drawing for $100 credit. Subscribe to our Specials newsletter for a chance to win.
Privacy Policy

More at Powell's

Recently Viewed clear list

Guests | June 17, 2013

Jami Attenberg: IMG On Sharing Works in Progress and Outlining

2 comments By Jami Attenberg

Lately my life has been a lot of travel, on planes, trains, and in a station wagon that is so beat up I am pretty sure it's not going to pass... Continue »
  1. $10.50 Sale Trade Paper add to wish list

    The Middlesteins

    Jami Attenberg 9781455507207
spacer
Ships free on qualified orders.
$4.50
List price: $13.95
Used Trade Paper
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
1 Burnside Literature- A to Z

Farewell, Shanghai

by

Farewell, Shanghai Cover

 

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Elisabeth and Theodore Weissberg, famous musicians, Hilde, a young film extra, and Vladek, an Eastern European adventurer wanted by the police on political charges, flee Nazi Germany for Shanghai at the onset of World War II. A magnet for every human ambition and vice, Shanghai is a city of extremes-of dazzling wealth and wretched poverty, suffering and pleasure, and, for the four refugees, exile and safety. There, they enter the world of Jewish refugees, many of them artists and intellectuals, who must either starve or eke out an impoverished and sometimes degraded living, but they are determined to live intelligently, upholding the high culture, humor, and even, insofar as they can, the elegance of their former lives. Master storyteller Angel Wagenstein crafts an intense narrative of life and death, passionate love, and profound courage against the backdrop of the war and the millions of lives caught up in it.
back to top

About the Author

Angel Wagenstein

Angel Wagenstein is a prizewinning Bulgarian novelist. His novel, Isaacs Torah, has been published in Bulgaria, Germany, Russia, France, the Czech Republic, and is forthcoming from Handsel Books. Farewell, Shanghai, his third novel, won the Jean Monnet award in 2004. Also by this Author - Isaac's Torah

Deliana Simeonova

Deliana Simeonova was born in Bulgaria and studied English philology and American literature at the University of Sofia. She has worked for civil-society NGOs in Tajikistan, Serbia, Liberia, and now does that work in her native Bulgaria. Also by this Author - Isaac's Torah

Elizabeth Frank

Elizabeth Frank is a Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Bard College. Also by this Author - Isaac's Torah

back to top
back to top

Product Details

ISBN:
9781590513088
Author:
Wagenstein, Angel
Publisher:
Handsel Books
Translator:
Frank, Elizabeth
Translator:
Simeonova, Deliana
Author:
Simeonova, Deliana
Author:
Frank, Elizabeth
Subject:
Jewish
Subject:
General-General
Copyright:
2008
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Publication Date:
20081131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
400
Dimensions:
8.50x5.54x1.17 in. .98 lbs.
back to top

Other books you might like

  1. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
    Used Trade Paper $3.50
  2. Wasted Vigil (08 Edition)
    Used Hardcover $13.00
  3. Highways to a War Used Trade Paper $5.95
  4. The Koran Used Mass Market $4.50
  5. The last continent :a discworld novel Used Hardcover $19.50
  6. Adopting After Infertility Used Trade Paper $4.95
back to top

Related Subjects

Fiction and Poetry » Literature » A to Z
Fiction and Poetry » Literature » Jewish

Farewell, Shanghai Used Trade Paper
0 stars - 0 reviews
$4.50 In Stock
Product details 400 pages Handsel Books - English 9781590513088 Reviews:
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...




Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.