A review by readalot662f9
Night in Shanghai by Nicole Mones

2.0

I've become interested in the period between the wars and the chaos in (Communists, Nationalists, Japanese) at the time, so I really, really wanted to like this book. The sense of place was well developed, but the characters seemed hollow to me. Forbidden love, African American and Chinese ofwoman, but nothing that made them seem like real people. And the unknown Holocaust story seemed like it was tossed in just to bring to light an unknown episode in history. Perhaps that should have been its own novel. That part made it seem to me that the story about Thomas and I've already forgotten her name was written just to tell the Holocaust story