Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. Though their personalities are very different - Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid - they are inseparable best friends. Both are beautiful, modern and living a carefree life... until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away the family's wealth, and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to two 'Gold Mountain' men: Americans. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, the two sisters set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the villages of southern China, in and out of the clutches of brutal soldiers, and even across the ocean, through the humiliation of an anti-Chinese detention centre to a new, married life in Los Angeles's Chinatown. Here they begin a fresh chapter, despite the racial discrimination and anti-Communist paranoia, because now they have something to strive for: a young, American-born daughter, Joy. Along the way there are terrible sacrifices, impossible choices and one devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel by Lisa See hold fast to who they are - Shanghai girls. (Payot.ch)
Dievčatá zo Šanghaja Séria
Táto séria rozpráva pohlcujúci príbeh o dvoch sestrách, ktorých život sa dramaticky zmení v rušnom Šanghaji tridsiatych rokov. Z privilegovaného života sú uvrhnuté do neistoty a musia čeliť nepredstaviteľným výzvam, vrátane nútených sobášov a ciest cez oceán do novej krajiny. Sledujeme ich boj o nájdenie lásky, prežitie a znovuobjavenie nádeje v cudzom svete, kde sa stretávajú s predsudkami aj s lákadlami Hollywoodu.
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Angry and confused after discovering Sam and Pearl are not her real parents, Joy leaves her Los Angeles home for the only place she can still believe in: Mao's China, where she is determined to find her real father and to be a part of the bold new plans sweeping the nation. A gripping portrait of Mao's China during the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine through the story of a mother's search for her daughter A stand-alone novel that also carries on where Shanghai Girls left off. Lisa See is the author of six previous novels, including the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shanghai Girls, Peony in Love and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Flower Net (which was nominated for an Edgar Award), The Interior, and Dragon Bones. She is also the author of the widely acclaimed memoir On Gold Mountain. She lives in Los Angeles.