Resultados para "shanghai" en Literatura y ficción

Es una épica historia de amor que se desarrolla durante un episodio casi desconocido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Aiyi Shao es una joven heredera, propietaria de un club nocturno en Shanghái, internacional y lleno de glamour. Ernest Reismann es un refugiado judío expulsado de Alemania. Ha perdido casi toda esperanza hasta que se cruza con Aiyi, quien lo contrata para tocar el piano en su club, en un escandaloso desafío a las costumbres. Ernest logra un éxito inmediato que hace revivir el club de Aiyi.

1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers. He loses nearly all hope until he crosses paths with Aiyi. When she hires Ernest to play piano at her club, her defiance of custom causes a sensation. His instant fame makes Aiyi’s club once again the hottest spot in Shanghai. Soon they realize they share more than a passion for jazz - but their differences seem insurmountable....

Hacia el año 1937, Shanghai está considerada el París del continente asiático. En la sofisticada y opulenta ciudad, donde conviven mendigos, millonarios, gángsters, jugadores y artistas, la vida sonríe a las hermanas Pearl y May Chin, hijas de un acaudalado hombre de negocios.

Half vampire. Half fox-spirit. All trouble. Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-spirit and all sasshole. As the King's ward, she has spent the past ninety years running errands, dodging the taunts of the spiteful hulijing courtiers...

Shanghai, with Extra Soy Sauce is a heartfelt, hilarious tale of friendship, cultural collision, and personal growth. Through every wrong turn and right moment, Ben discovers that sometimes the best classroom is the world itself—and the greatest lessons come when you’re totally out of your depth.

Shanghai 1927. Pearl of the East or Whore of the Orient? Depends on who you ask. It's a cesspool of poverty, thronged with refugees, gripped by civil war. But for some it's still a fever dream: jazz clubs, film stars, and opium dens, celebrities and spies, easy money and easier women. The son of a rural Irish cop, Michael Gallagher has joined the Shanghai Municipal Police to escape an Ireland crippled by its recent bitter independence fight and escape a personal tragedy.

Dette er historien om to kinesiske søstres skæbne og drømmen om Amerika. Den 21-årige Pearl og hendes yngre søster May lever et ubekymret liv i 1930’ernes Shanghai - Asiens Paris. De har tilegnet sig en vestlig moderne livsstil, hvor det er slut med indsnørede fødder. Men selv om pigerne lever et frit liv, er Kina stadig et patriarkalsk samfund. tDa faren mister sin rickshaw forretning pga. spillegæld, er det slut med det sorgløse liv.

Nainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted grandson. But when the bride she has chosen arrives from the countryside, it soon becomes clear that the orphaned girl has ideas of her own. Her name is Fu Ping, and the more she explores the residential lanes and courtyards behind Shanghai’s busy shopping streets, the less she wants to return to the country as a dutiful wife. As Fu Ping wavers over her future, she learns the city through the stories of the nannies, handymen, and garbage collectors of postwar Shanghai....

Max Mohrs Leben im Exil ist bis zu seinem Tod im Jahr 1937 geprägt vom Kampf...

Una scelta può cambiare per sempre il corso di una vita 1941. Durante un'afosa serata nel quartiere di Kowloon, uno dei di­stretti più caratteristici della co­lonia di Hong Kong, la dottores­sa Rowena Rossiter è in cerca di un po' svago dopo il duro lavoro. Ancora non sa che il suo mondo è sull'orlo del collasso. Quella sera, Rowena incontrerà due uomini che si batteranno per il suo cuore negli anni seguen­ti. Connor O'Connor, un soldato irlandese ribelle, che la corteggerà con determinazione e piglio scan­zonato; e Kim Pheloung.

In Edward Whittemore’s masterful and surreal alternate history, a man’s search for answers about his vanished parents propels him on an odyssey from the present into the past, from a bar in the Bronx to Tokyo and Shanghai during the Second World War. Quin, born in China and raised in the Bronx, is orphaned in the closing days of the Second World War when his parents go missing and are presumed dead in Shanghai.

En la Barcelona de la posguerra —ese espacio ya mítico donde transcurre la narrativa de Marsé—, el capitán Blay, con su cabeza vendada y sus suspicacias sobre los escapes de gas que están a punto de hacer volar toda la ciudad, se pasea por el barrio sacudido aún por los estertores de la guerra perdida y acompañado por los espectros gimientes de sus hijos muertos.

Named a Best Mystery & Suspense Book of the Year by BookPage and CrimeReads “A steamy, thrilling crime story” (The Washington Post) from New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon set in pre-World War II Shanghai, where glamour and squalor exist side by side and murder is just the cost...

‘Step forward Kanon, the American Robert Harris, a man who finds untold stories from our recent past and brings them alive’ TIM SHIPMAN, SUNDAY TIMES Daniel Lohr, sensing that the Nazis are closing in on the Jews, leaves his dying father in Berlin and boards a ship to Shanghai. His passage...

Despite his intelligence, Jong was hardly employee-of-the-month, and he was fired from his job once again. Luckily for him, Marvey Simons, the American intern he had a secret crush on, introduced him to Mr. Qi, the manager of a major international bank, who was desperately looking for a good programmer to take over the development of a series of highly complex fin-tech projects. The man was filthy rich for a corporate employee, and when he offered Jong a mind-blowing remuneration package with the job, Jong took the bait without thinking twice.

"Stories of Making a Fortune" collects dozens of stories about making a fortune, allowing more listeners to enjoy good stories, read good stories, appreciate good stories, cherish good stories, and spread good stories.

The life of migrant workers is richly diverse and ever-changing. The stories told in this book are but a drop in the ocean compared to real life, yet they accurately capture and reflect the real experiences of young migrant workers.

Ein temporeicher Schicksalsroman, den man atemlos und mit Tränen in den Augen verschlingt. Hotel Shanghai, erschienen 1939, gilt als »Meisterwerk der populären Literatur« und ist doch viel mehr: Die Geschichte von neun Menschen, die zu Beginn des chinesisch-japanischen Krieges aus den verschiedensten Teilen der Welt in einem Hotel zusammentreffen und am Ende durch eine Bombe getötet werden, ist ein Plädoyer für den Frieden und das Leben in seiner vielfältigen, hinreißenden Gestalt.

In February 1936–Nick’s old nemeses, Black Dragon Toshio Miyazaki of Japanese Naval Intelligence returns to San Francisco. He enlists a traitor to steal top-secret US Naval Codes. Nick joins a naval intelligence team with a mad plan. They would race Miyazaki to China in a new Sikorsky S-43 amphibian and confront Miyazaki using Nick as bait. Then United States Marines would spring a trap and recover the stolen codes. All Nick has to do is survive the encounter with the merciless Black Dragon.

日本鬼子乡下种大烟，城里开烟馆，流毒天下；刺刀和烟枪一起对着中华民族……日本鬼子鄉下種大煙，城裡開煙館，流毒天下；刺刀和煙槍一起對著中華民族……