Synopsis
About Bo Caldwell
See more books from this AuthorEnraptured with the city’s sights and smells, he imparts this love to Anna: “My father handed Shanghai down to me as though it were an inheritance, a family treasure meant only for me.” But encroaching Japanese soldiers and floods of refugees make the city less and less tenable until, on the eve ...
| Read Full Review of The Distant Land of My FatherCaldwell's memoirlike first novel begins in 1930s Shanghai, a city where enterprising foreign entrepreneurs can quickly become millionaires—and just as quickly lose everything as victims
Sep 10 2001 | Read Full Review of The Distant Land of My FatherCaldwell's memoirlike first novel begins in 1930s Shanghai, a city where enterprising foreign entrepreneurs can quickly become millionaires—and just as quickly lose everything as victims
Sep 10 2001 | Read Full Review of The Distant Land of My FatherAn aggregated and normalized score based on 261 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes