Farewell, Shanghai by Angel Wagenstein; Elizabeth Frank (Translator); Deliana Simeonova (Translator)Recommended by: Xueying Ren
Why did I like the book? Characters in the book tried their best to live a life even in such a harsh time. From the book, I realize that hope is very important when we face difficulties in our life.
Publisher’s Description: 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. 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 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.