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Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Set in 1930's Shanghai, a grief-stricken blind American diplomat shuts out the world and sets about creating the bar of his dreams with the help of a Japanese spy and a refugee Russian countess turned taxi dancer to support her young daughter and unappreciative in-laws. As civil war and the advancing Japanese army begins their invasion, the diplomat is forced to face his past and the reality of what's going on around him.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
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