Rising Sun, Falling Shadow

✍ Scribed by Kalla, Daniel

• Book ID: 109095121
• Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 174 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781443404709

✦ Synopsis

It's 1943, and the Japanese war machine has swallowed up Shanghai, the once-thriving "Paris of the East," upending life for its Chinese population as well as the city's thousands of American, British and officially stateless European residents. Newlyweds Dr. Franz Adler and his wife, Soon Yi (Sunny), struggle to keep the city's only hospital for refugee Jews open, while Shanghai's Allied citizens are interned in squalid camps outside the city. The Japanese force twenty thousand Jewish refugees, including the Adlers, to relocate to a one-square-kilometre section in the slums of the city--the "Shanghai Ghetto." For those trapped inside, heat, starvation, and disease are constant threats. Sunny, a Shanghai native desperate to defend her lifelong home, is tempted into the dangerous embrace of the local Resistance movement, while a mysterious Chinese man brought critically wounded to the hospital may represent an even greater threat. Meanwhile, as the tide of the war begins...