Strangers on the Praia: A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao by French, Paul

Strangers on the Praia: A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789887963899)

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Strangers on the Praia: A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao by French, Paul

Strangers on the Praia: A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao

$9.95
Strangers on the Praia: A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao by French, Paul

Strangers on the Praia: A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao

$9.95
Format: Paperback
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Based on true stories and new research, Paul French weaves together the stories of those Jewish refugees who moved on from wartime Shanghai to seek a possible route to freedom via the Portuguese colony of Macao - "the Casablanca of the Orient". The delicately balanced neutral enclave became their wartime home, amid Nazi and Japanese spies, escaped Allied prisoners from Hong Kong, and displaced Chinese. Strangers on the Praia relates the story of one young woman's struggle for freedom that would ultimately prove an act of brave resistance.

Author: Paul French
ISBN-10: 9887963895
ISBN-13: 9789887963899
Publisher: Blacksmith Books
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2021
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 7.10h x 4.40w x 0.40d
By Paul French
By Paul French
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Paul French lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. After a career as a commentator on China he is now a full-time author and historian focusing on China in the first half of the twentieth century. His book Midnight in Peking was a New York Times bestseller, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime and a Crime Writers' Association (UK) Dagger Award for non-fiction. City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir focuses on the casinos and cabarets of wartime Shanghai. It was a Kirkus Book of the Year 2018. Both Midnight in Peking and City of Devils have been optioned for television.French is a contributor to publications including Literary Hub, The Financial Times Weekend and Crime Reads. He also works in radio drama with productions including Death at the Airport: The Plot Against Kim Jong Nam for BBC Radio and a 12-part Audible Original series, Murders of Old China.

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