Claire Chao (Libri)

Claire Chao Libri

Claire Chao tesse una narrazione avvincente che approfondisce la sua storia familiare, intricata con il vibrante arazzo di Shanghai. La sua impresa letteraria nasce da un decennio di ricerca dedicata e da una profonda connessione personale con le storie e i luoghi che illumina. Chao esplora temi di identità, eredità e la ricerca delle proprie radici, impiegando uno stile sia accattivante che acuto. Il suo lavoro è una testimonianza del potere duraturo dei legami familiari e dei profondi modi in cui il passato modella il nostro presente.

Remembering Shanghai

308pagine
11 ore di lettura

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Winner of over 20 awards including Rubery Award BOOK OF THE YEAR and Writer’s Digest GRAND PRIZE ... An Extraordinary Multigenerational Saga.A high position bestowed by China's empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family. For Isabel, growing up in glamorous 1930s and '40s Shanghai, it is a life of utmost privilege. But while her scholar father and fashionable mother shelter her from civil war and Japanese occupation, they cannot shield the family forever.When Mao comes to power, eighteen-year-old Isabel journeys to Hong Kong, not realizing that she will make it her home--and that she will never see her father again. Meanwhile, the family she has left behind struggles to survive, only to have their world shattered by the Cultural Revolution. Isabel returns to Shanghai fifty years later with her daughter, Claire, to confront their family's past--one they discover is filled with love and betrayal, kidnappers and concubines, glittering pleasure palaces and underworld crime bosses.Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai follows five generations from a hardscrabble village to vibrant Shanghai to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity, loss and the unpredictable nature of life against the epic backdrop of a nation and a people in turmoil.