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By Bo Caldwell

ISBN-10: 0811832406

ISBN-13: 9780811832403

For Anna, the narrator of Bo Caldwell's richly lyrical and shiny first novel, starting to be up within the magical international of Shanghai within the Thirties and Forties creates a unique bond among her and her father. he's the son of missionaries, a smuggler, and a millionaire who leads a charmed yet secretive existence. whilst the relations flees to l. a. within the face of the japanese career, he chooses to stay, believing his connections and good fortune will hold him secure. he is incorrect. He survives, simply to back select Shanghai over his family members throughout the moment international struggle. Anna and her father reconnect past due in his existence, whilst she eventually has a family members of her personal, however it is barely while she discovers his wide journals that she is ready to totally comprehend him and the explanations for his absences. With the depth and attraction of once we have been Orphans, additionally set in Shanghai even as, The far away Land of My Father tells a relocating and unforgettable tale a few most unique father-daughter dating.

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On a cold, still night in the middle of November, I woke to find my father in my room. He was standing at my window, looking out toward the city. There was something about the way he stood that alarmed me. ” He smiled, barely. “Yes,” he whispered. ” I asked, also whispering. He sighed and looked out the window again. “Something’s happened that I didn’t expect,” he said. “Shanghai has fallen to the Japanese. The Chinese general has ordered his soldiers to leave the city. ” He looked down at me. ” I shook my head.

Shanghai’s our home, right? ” I shrugged. “We’ll have to see,” and he stood and slipped the yen into his pocket. “Everything’s all right, Anna. ” I forced a smile, and he patted the pocket that held the yen and whispered, “Hsiehhsieh,” thank you. Then he leaned close and kissed my forehead as though we’d made a pact. We had, in a way, and when he turned and left my room, I hurt inside, but I also felt proud of myself. I had managed to do what I’d wanted most: I had managed not to cry, and when he told me that everything was all right, I had pretended to believe him.

I made a lot of noise when I was nearby; I didn’t want to hear what they were saying, not any of it. Early on, I had heard my father use the phrase “burning them alive,” and I knew I didn’t want to hear any more. It was also the first time I heard the word rape, and though I had no idea what the word meant, the fear and pain in my mother’s voice told me I didn’t want to know more. On a Sunday evening in January, 1938, Dr. McLain and his wife and Will Marsh came for dinner. Casual Sunday-night gatherings in the Outside Roads were a sort of tradition.

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