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The song of the jade lily : a novel / Kirsty Manning.
1939, Shanghai: Beautiful local Li and Jewish refugee Romy form a fierce friendship, but the deepening shadows of World War II fall over the women as they slip between the city's glamorous French Concession district and the teeming streets of the Shanghai Ghetto. 2016: Alexandra returns to Australia from London to be with her grandparents, Romy and Wilhelm. Her grandfather is dying, and over the coming weeks Romy and Wilhelm begin to reveal the family mysteries they have kept secret for more than half a century.After Wilhelm dies, Alexandra flies to Shanghai, determined to trace her grandparents' past-- and the truth about her family and herself. -- adapted from jacket
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062938657
- ISBN: 0062938657
- ISBN: 9780062882011
- ISBN: 0062882015
- Physical Description: 450, 17 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published as The Jade Lily in Australia in 2018 by Allen & Unwin." -- Verso. |
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| Subject: | Jews > China > Shanghai > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction. Shanghai (China) > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > China > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Historical fiction. |
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- 17 of 18 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity | FIC MAN SON 2019 (Text) | 31001101761287 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Muhlenberg Community Library | MAN (Text) | 33249023029998 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Reading Public Library RPL - Main | Fiction Manning (Text) | 33223008430802 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Red Land Community Library | Adults MAN Fiction (Text) | 34006000959574 | Main Room | Available | - |
| Southern Lehigh Public Library | FIC MAN (Text) | 30044100854258 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Tamaqua Public Library | MAN (Text) | 30TPL001856093 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Taylor Community Library | FICTION MANNING (Text) | 50692010933516 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Barrett Paradise Friendly Library | F Man (Text) | 37171000007415 | Adult Fiction | Recently Returned | - |
