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Farewell, Shanghai : (a novel) by Wagenstein, Angel; Frank, Elizabeth; Simeonova, Deliana is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Farewell, Shanghai : (a novel) about?

The unforgettable novel of nearly forgotten refugees who fled Nazi Germany, and discovered the glamour and excess of Shanghai. 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 extremesof 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.

Who reads Farewell, Shanghai : (a novel)?

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Wagenstein, Angel; Frank, Elizabeth; Simeonova, Deliana
Publisher
New York: Handsel Books
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9781590512548
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, History
Rating
3.5 / 5 (78 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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