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Song of the Jade Lily A Novel

by Kirsty Manning
Song of the Jade Lily A Novel

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ISBN10: 0062882015
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Kirsty Manning makes her US debut with this gripping historical novel that tells the little-known story of Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII.

"Compelling, passionate, and admirable."-- Australian Women's Weekly

1939 Two young girls meet in Shanghai, also known as the "Paris of the East." Beautiful local Li and Jewish refugee Romy form a fierce friendship, but the deepening shadows of World War II fall over the women as they slip between the city's glamorous French Concession district and the teeming streets of the Shanghai Ghetto. Yet soon the realities of war prove to be too much for these close friends as they are torn apart.

2016: Fleeing London with a broken heart, Alexandra returns to Australia to be with her grandparents, Romy and Wilhelm. Her grandfather is dying, and over the coming weeks Romy and Wilhelm begin to reveal the family mysteries they have kept secret for more than half a century. As fragments of her mother's history finally become clear, Alexandra struggles with what she learns while more is also revealed about her grandmother's own past in Shanghai.

After Wilhelm dies, Alexandra flies to Shanghai, determined to trace her grandparents' past. Peeling back the layers of their hidden lives, she is forced to question what she knows about her family--and herself.

The Song of the Jade Lily is a lush, provocative, and beautiful story of friendship, motherhood, the price of love, and the power of hardship and courage that can shape us all.

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"Kirsty Manning weaves together little-known threads of World War II history, family secrets, the past and the present into a page-turning, beautiful novel."-- Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

A gripping historical novel that tells the little-known story of Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII.

1939 Two young girls meet in Shanghai, also known as the "Paris of the East." Beautiful local Li and Jewish refugee Romy form a fierce friendship, but the deepening shadows of World War II fall over the women as they slip between the city's glamorous French Concession district and the teeming streets of the Shanghai Ghetto. Yet soon the realities of war prove to be too much for these close friends as they are torn apart.

2016: Fleeing London with a broken heart, Alexandra returns to Australia to be with her grandparents, Romy and Wilhelm. Her grandfather is dying, and over the coming weeks Romy and Wilhelm begin to reveal the family mysteries they have kept secret for more than half a century. As fragments of her mother's history finally become clear, Alexandra struggles with what she learns while more is also revealed about her grandmother's own past in Shanghai.

After Wilhelm dies, Alexandra flies to Shanghai, determined to trace her grandparents' past. Peeling back the layers of their hidden lives, she is forced to question what she knows about her family--and herself.

The Song of the Jade Lily is a lush, provocative, and beautiful story of friendship, motherhood, the price of love, and the power of hardship and courage that can shape us all.


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Rose City Reader , July 31, 2019 (view all comments by Rose City Reader)
The Song of the Jade Lily is the story of Jewish refugees in Shanghai in WWII. It goes back and forth between the friendship between a local girl and a Jewish refugee in WWII Shanghai, and 2016, when a granddaughter returns to dig up family secrets. It has everything you want from a historical novel -- excellent storytelling, characters to worry over, and information about a little-known episode in history. This would make a great book club pick.

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Silvers Reviews , May 16, 2019 (view all comments by Silvers Reviews)
Jewish families were fleeing Austria, and Romy’s family was on its way to China without her brothers Michael and Daniel. Michael had been shot, and Daniel was taken to Dachau Concentration Camp. China was the only country during the war that they could enter without a visa. We meet Romy and her family as they make the journey and settle in Shanghai in 1939. We then move to 2016 and meet Alexandra who has traveled to Australia from London because her grandfather who raised her was dying. Being back in her childhood home was bittersweet and was heartbreaking when she had to leave her grandmother to return to her job and head to Shanghai - a place Alexandra had never been. The only good thing about leaving was that Alexandra might find out who her mother really was and where her mother had really originated from. I enjoyed Alexandra's search for clues and the secret Romy was keeping from her granddaughter about who her mother was as well as learning of life in Shanghai during the war. The back and forth in time was smoothly done, and the characters were authentically portrayed. You will fall in love with the characters and respect their strength. Ms. Manning’s writing flows beautifully along with the intriguing story line. If you enjoy historical fiction, learning about another part of the world during WWII, and learning customs of the Chinese culture, you won’t want to miss reading THE SONG OF JADE LILY. THE SONG OF JADE LILY is an enjoyable, heartbreaking, heartwarming, mesmerizing, educational read. This book was given to me as an ARC by the publisher and LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review.

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9780062882011
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Publication date:
02/18/2020
Publisher:
WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY INC
Pages:
480
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1.20IN
Width:
5.90IN
Author:
Kirsty Manning

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