Claire Chao (Livres)

Claire Chao Livres

Claire Chao tisse un récit captivant qui explore son histoire familiale, intimement liée à la riche tapisserie de Shanghai. Son entreprise littéraire est le fruit d'une décennie de recherche dévouée et d'une profonde connexion personnelle avec les histoires et les lieux qu'elle illumine. Chao explore les thèmes de l'identité, de l'héritage et de la recherche des racines, en employant un style à la fois captivant et perspicace. Son œuvre témoigne du pouvoir durable des liens familiaux et des manières profondes dont le passé façonne notre présent.

Remembering Shanghai

308pages
11 heures de lecture

4,2(14)Évaluer

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.