Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
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Librería Elías (Asturias)
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Librería Kolima (Madrid)
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’My father was a millionaire in Shanghai in the 1930s.’Anna Schoene was a golden child. Her parents Joseph and Genevieve were rich American expats in Shanghai before the Japanese invaded before the war intervened. Joseph Schoene had made his fortune living on his wits. He was in love with Shanghai with China with the idea of taking risks. Completely devoted to his daughter he imbued her with the same love of China’s turbulent city that he had. To Anna it seemed that the idyll would last forever. But when the Japanese army invaded when war finally came even Anna knew that the dream was over. Joseph however refused to leave. Instead he sent his wife and daughter back to the States with the promise that they would soon be reunited. But that too would prove to be a dream. Anna grows up in Los Angeles and slowly over the years begins to learn the real story of her father - both then in Shanghai and finally his last years in California. Their story ultimately is one of love and forgiveness - and of the great gifts that a parent can give a child-The Distant Land of My Father is a moving engaging and triumphant novel of discovery and rediscovery.
