Wednesday, October 14, 2020

The Song of the Jade Lily - great story about Jewish refugees in Shanghai

 


The Song of the Jade Lily

by Kirsty Manning 

4/5 stars

⭐⭐⭐⭐


This book is about a family of refugees from Vienna in the late 30's who go to Shanghai to avoid the Nazis. The book jumps back and forth from present-day to wartime, however, it is easy to tell what era you are reading about.

It was very interesting the way the action unfolded, and there was a surprising twist at the end, which I always like.

The book really held my interest and I pretty much literally read it in 1 day, which shows how interested I was.

It was nice the way the stories of different people were told, so you learned about Austrian Jews, Poor immigrants, Americans, Chinese people, and Japanese people.

I would recommend this book highly- it was very enjoyable.


Finished reading in Sept 2020

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