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I loved, loved, loved this book. I have been completely immersed in wartime Shanghai. It has been an educational, emotional, rollercoaster of a read.Aiyi, a wealthy young woman, owns a nightclub in Shanghai. She hires a Jewish refugee, a pianist called Ernest Reisman, who has recently arrived in the city with his younger sister. I had been unaware of the tens of thousands of refugees who fled Europe for Shanghai. This is their story as much as a love story between Aiyi and Ernest, a man she shou...
it seems like this book is ready to break me like a promise, and i'm here for it
Amazon first reads failed me again. This book is written in the style of "this happened, and then this happened, and then this happened." It literally reads like just a list of events, descriptors are uncreative and repetitive, and it is certainly NOT the "timeless and sweeping story" that the description would suggest. The plot could have been interesting, but I could not stomach the bland writing for over 400 pages and quit torturing myself at page 255.
This book is my favorite kind of historical fiction – an engrossing story that also opens my eyes to a piece of history I wasn’t familiar with. The story is set in Shanghai under Japanese occupation during WWII and is told from the alternating points of view of Aiyi and Ernest. Aiyi is a young Chinese heiress with a love for jazz who owns one of Shanghai’s most popular nightclubs (she is quite the entrepreneur for her day!). Ernest is a penniless Jewish refugee from Germany searching for shelter...
this is a unique novel in that it combines brutal action sequences with touching emotional scenes ... the book is full of surprises and plot twists, some of which seem unlikely but are nevertheless entertaining ... there is also the immersion into wartime Shanghai - you feel as if you're there ... very well written and difficult to put down
Thanks to Netgalley and Lake Union Publishing for an egalley in exchange for an honest review. As the Last Rose of Shanghai opens, it is 1990 and an older woman awaits the arrival of her niece and a documentarian. In the case of the latter, the woman, who we soon learn is Aiyi, a Chinese woman who is one of our main protagonists wishes for the documentarian to know the story of Ernest Reismann, a German refugee who arrives in Shanghai during the 1930’s and was a well-known pianist. Ernest will
