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LEADER: 02224cam a2200361 i 4500
001 2013045640
003 DLC
005 20141125124653.0
008 131212s2014 mau 000 1 eng
010 $a 2013045640
020 $a9780547516172 (hardback)
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050 00 $aPS3563.O519$bN55 2014
082 00 $a813/.54$223
084 $aFIC014000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMones, Nicole.
245 10 $aNight in Shanghai /$cNicole Mones.
264 1 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,$c2014.
300 $a277 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a""Nicole Mones conjures up the jazz-filled, complex, turbulent world of Shanghai just before World War II. A rich and thoroughly captivating read."--Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai's Garden Sailing to Shanghai in 1936 to lead a black jazz orchestra, Thomas Greene goes from being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, and from the classical piano pieces he was trained to play to the toe-tapping swing of the big band era. Song Yuhua is refined, educated, and bonded since age eighteen to Shanghai's most powerful crime boss in payment for her father's gambling debts. Outwardly submissive, she burns with rage, longs for escape, and risks her life spying on her master for the Communist Party. With Shanghai shattered by the Japanese invasion, Thomas and Song find their way to each other and forge a bond from which neither can back down in the turbulent years that follow. Torn between music and survival, freedom and commitment, love and war, they navigate the dangers leading to world war until the moment when they must cast their lots in Night in Shanghai's final, impossible choice. "--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aJazz musicians$vFiction.
650 0 $aAmericans$zChina$zShanghai$vFiction.
650 0 $aOrganized crime$vFiction.
651 0 $aShanghai (China)$vFiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Historical.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aSpy stories.$2gsafd
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aLove stories.$2gsafd