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Weina Dai Randel

Autore di The Moon in the Palace

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Opere di Weina Dai Randel

The Moon in the Palace (2016) 238 copie
The Last Rose of Shanghai (2021) 233 copie
Night Angels: A Novel (2023) 128 copie
Luna din palat (2019) 3 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico
Randel, Weina Dai
Nome legale
Randel, Weina Dai
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Nazione (per mappa)
USA
Luogo di nascita
China
Luogo di residenza
Shanghai, China
Dallas, Texas, USA
Istruzione
Texas Woman's University
Attività lavorative
magazine editor
adjunct professor
writer
Organizzazioni
Historical Novel Society

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The fictionalized account of diplomat Dr. Ho Fengshan, Senior Counsel at the Chinese Ambassador's Office stationed in Vienna 1936-1940. He was responsible for issuing 7000+ passports for Jews to China. He was designated Righteous of the Nations in 2006. 375 pages
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Tess_W | 9 altre recensioni | Dec 7, 2023 |
Fictionalized account of a story based on a real Chinese diplomat and events that occurred in Vienna as the world headed into World War II.

FROM AMAZON: a profoundly moving novel about a diplomatic couple who risked their lives to help Viennese Jews escape the Nazis, inspired by the true story of Dr. Ho Fengshan, Righteous Among the Nations.

1938. Dr. Ho Fengshan, consul general of China, is posted in Vienna with his American wife, Grace. Shy and ill at ease with the societal obligations of diplomats’ wives, Grace is an outsider in a city beginning to feel the sweep of the Nazi dragnet. When Grace forms a friendship with her Jewish tutor, Lola Schnitzler, Dr. Ho requests that Grace keep her distance. His instructions are to maintain amicable relations with the Third Reich, and he and Grace are already under their vigilant eye.

But when Lola’s family is subjugated to a brutal pogrom, Dr. Ho decides to issue them visas to Shanghai. As violence against the Jews escalates after Kristallnacht and threats mount, Dr. Ho must issue thousands more to help Jews escape Vienna before World War II explodes.

Inspired by a remarkable true story, Night Angels explores the risks brave souls took and the love and friendship they built and lost while fighting against incalculable evil.
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Gmomaj | 9 altre recensioni | Oct 24, 2023 |
It amazes me that after all these years, all the stories that keep being told about the horror that was inspired by one leader's never ending hate, we can still find people who want to deny and reintroduce it. I pray for all that reason will prevail in the end.

This is another must read book.

FROM AMAZON: a profoundly moving novel about a diplomatic couple who risked their lives to help Viennese Jews escape the Nazis, inspired by the true story of Dr. Ho Fengshan, Righteous Among the Nations.

1938. Dr. Ho Fengshan, consul general of China, is posted in Vienna with his American wife, Grace. Shy and ill at ease with the societal obligations of diplomats’ wives, Grace is an outsider in a city beginning to feel the sweep of the Nazi dragnet. When Grace forms a friendship with her Jewish tutor, Lola Schnitzler, Dr. Ho requests that Grace keep her distance. His instructions are to maintain amicable relations with the Third Reich, and he and Grace are already under their vigilant eye.

But when Lola’s family is subjugated to a brutal pogrom, Dr. Ho decides to issue them visas to Shanghai. As violence against the Jews escalates after Kristallnacht and threats mount, Dr. Ho must issue thousands more to help Jews escape Vienna before World War II explodes.

Inspired by a remarkable true story, Night Angels explores the risks brave souls took and the love and friendship they built and lost while fighting against incalculable evil.
… (altro)
 
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Gmomaj | 9 altre recensioni | Oct 24, 2023 |
I have to come clean and say this is not a book I would have ordinarily read, but the time period it was set in had me curious and the setting was one I'd never considered reading about in that era.The writing was concise and the characters well built; some of the scenes described written so well it made my stomach lurch.

If you are interested in WWII I recommend this book as a different perspective on that time.
 
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Melline | 7 altre recensioni | Oct 24, 2023 |

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Popolarità
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Voto
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Recensioni
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ISBN
29
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