The Far Side of the Sky: A Novel of Love and Survival in War-Torn Shanghai (Shanghai Series)
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On the eve of the Second World War a Jewish familys final hope lies across the world in Shanghai On November 9 1938Kristallnachtthe Nazis unleash a night of terror for Jews all across Germany. Meanwhile the Japanese Imperial Army rampages through China and tightens its stranglehold on Shanghai a city that becomes the last haven for thousands of desperate European Jews. Dr. Franz Adler a renowned surgeon is swept up in the wave of anti-Semitic violence and flees to Shanghai with his daughter. At a refugee hospital Franz meets an enigmatic nurse Soon Yi "Sunny" Mah. The chemistry between them is intense and immediate but Sunnys life is shattered when a drunken Japanese sailor murders her father. The danger escalates for Shanghais Jews as the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Facing starvation and disease Franz struggles to keep the refugee hospital open and protect his family from a terrible fate. Daniel Kallas The Far Side of the Sky focuses on a short but extraordinary period of Chinese Japanese and Jewish history when cultures converged and heroic sacrifices were part of the everyday quest for survival.
