Shanghai Girls (Paperback)
| Author: Lisa See |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
ISBN-10: 0812980530
ISBN-13: 9780812980530
Sku: 211295490
Publish Date: 2/2/2010
Pages:
322
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| Forced to leave Shanghai when their father sells them to California suitors, sisters May and Pearl struggle to adapt to life in 1930s Los Angeles while still bound to old customs, as they face discrimination and confront a life-altering secret. *Author: See, Lisa *Publication Date: 2010/02/02 *Number of Pages: 322 *Binding Type: Paperback *Language: English *Depth: 0.75 *Width: 5.25 *Height: 8.25 |
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Through arranged marriages, two sisters leave Shanghai in 1937 to find a new life in Los Angeles. By the best-selling author of |
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Lisa See's enthralling epic follows the descent of May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the late 1930s, whose idyllic lives of luxury and glamour are irrevocably shattered after their parents sell them as brides to two Chinese-Americans. At first, the girls rebel against the decision and go into hiding, but they are soon discovered by the invading Japanese army, whose barbaric acts further traumatize them. They decide to seek their "husbands" in California, which leads to the arduous ordeal of immigration, where more bitter family secrets are revealed. The girls must then adapt and assimilate to postwar Los Angeles, where they settle into quiet lives as Chinese housewives, forced to work menial jobs and act as servants to their misanthropic men. This magnificent saga features historical insight and emotional impacts on every page, as Lisa See cements her status as the reigning master of American fiction with a Chinese theme.
Lisa See's enthralling epic follows the descent of May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the late 1930s, whose idyllic lives of luxury and glamour are irrevocably shattered after their parents sell them as brides to two Chinese-Americans. At first, the girls rebel against the decision and go into hiding, but they are soon discovered by the invading Japanese army, whose barbaric acts further traumatize them. They decide to seek their "husbands" in California, which leads to the arduous ordeal of immigration, where more bitter family secrets are revealed. The girls must then adapt and assimilate to postwar Los Angeles, where they settle into quiet lives as Chinese housewives, forced to work menial jobs and act as servants to their misanthropic men. This magnificent saga features historical insight and emotional impacts on every page, as Lisa See cements her status as the reigning master of American fiction with a Chinese theme.
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"See's skillful plotting and richly drawn characters immediately draw in the reader, covering 20 years of love, loss, heartbreak and joy while delivering a sobering history lesson....[T]his is an accomplished and absorbing novel."
03/23/2009
"See is a gifted writer, and in SHANGHAI GIRLS she again explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience."
- Susan Kelly
06/12/2009
"[A] graceful, meticulous examination of the lives of two irrepressible sisters....Pearl and Meg, [who] are, through See's splendid depiction, sympathetic and fascinating characters....See, whose writing is as graceful as these 'beautiful girls,' pulls off another exceptional novel."
- Amy Canfield
06/21/2009
"If you're looking for one of those wonderful 'take me someplace exotic and unfamiliar' books for summer, you won't do better than SHANGHAI GIRLS...from novelist Lisa See....[She] masterfully weaves the intimate story of these sisters and their extended family with the larger tales of Chinese immigrants struggling to get along in an unfamiliar, often hostile new land."
- Joy Tipping
06/07/2009
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