Shanghai Girls
A Novel
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Narrateur(s):
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Janet Song
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Auteur(s):
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Lisa See
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Number-one New York Times best-seller.
“A gifted writer...explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience.” (USA Today)
In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, 21-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn’t be more different: Pearl is a dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree...until the day their father tells them he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides.
As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America.
In Los Angeles, they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with the strangers they have married, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life even as they fight against discrimination, brave communist witch hunts, and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown’s old ways and rules.
At its heart, Shanghai Girls is a story of sisters: Pearl and May are inseparable best friends who share hopes, dreams, and a deep connection, but like sisters everywhere, they also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. They love each other, but each knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt the other the most.
Along the way, they face terrible sacrifices, make impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they are: Shanghai girls.
Praise for Shanghai Girls:
“A buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood.” (Booklist)
“A rich work...as compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey.” (Denver Post)
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Ce que les critiques en disent
"A buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood." (Booklist)
“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.” (USA Today)
“A rich work... as compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey.” (Denver Post)
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- celia gjosund
- 2020-06-24
Beautiful
Beautiful story about sisters their love for each other and their life journey from China to USA and their life there
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- Sandra
- 2017-10-26
Engaging and emotional
Through this book I learned so much I never knew about Chinese immigration during the 1930s.. the characters are so engaging and real, imperfect but true and loving. The narration was exvellent.
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- Melissa
- 2019-02-14
"When our hair is white..."
"...we'll still have our sister love."
Shanghai Girls is a shockingly sad, educational look at what life was like for two sisters who escaped China in the early 20th century to pursue a "gold mountain man" life in San Francisco. Lisa See presents us with a highly detailed take on their excruciating journey to and in America. This book deals in themes of sisterhood, motherhood, love, old Chinese versus old American values, religion, and crushing racism.
In Canadian and America schools, this book(as others) should be a lesson to us. We should be putting time into educating our own to the perspectives and lessons that shaped our respective countries.
What I would have liked to see from this book would be a bigger section on the perspective of the main characters and their later relationship with the Japanese. A lot of time is put into this book detailing the fear and racism between the two countries but once the immediate threat of Japan's terror over China gives way to Mao's communism, the thread drops off, never to be heard of again.
Janet Song is a wonderful, somber narrator and fits the role perfectly.
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