02638cam a2200409 4500 409418549 TxAuBib 20200103120000.0 190416s2019||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2019018149 9781432867713 1432867717 (OCoLC)1098232942 TxAuBib Manning, Kirsty,. The song of the jade lily / Kirsty Manning. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press,Gale, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, Gale Cengage Learning, 2019. ℗2019. 645 pages ; 23 cm. Thorndike press large print historical fiction Thorndike Press large print historical fiction "A novel"--Cover. "A gripping historical novel that tells the little-known story of Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII. 1939: Two young girls meet in Shanghai, also known as the "Paris of the East". Beautiful local Li and Jewish refugee Romy form a fierce friendship, but the deepening shadows of World War II fall over the women as they slip between the city's glamorous French Concession district and the teeming streets of the Shanghai Ghetto. Yet soon the realities of war prove to be too much for these close friends as they are torn apart. 2016: Fleeing London with a broken heart, Alexandra returns to Australia to be with her grandparents, Romy and Wilhelm. Her grandfather is dying, and over the coming weeks Romy and Wilhelm begin to reveal the family mysteries they have kept secret for more than half a century. As fragments of her mother's history finally become clear, Alexandra struggles with what she learns while more is also revealed about her grandmother's own past in Shanghai. After Wilhelm dies, Alexandra flies to Shanghai, determined to trace her grandparents' past. Peeling back the layers of their hidden lives, she is forced to question what she knows about her family--and herself." -- Provided by publisher. 20200103. Jewish refugees China Shanghai Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Jewish families Australia Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 China Fiction. Large type books. Shanghai (China) Fiction. Historical fiction. Jewish fiction. Thorndike press large print historical fiction. Thorndike Press large print historical fiction.