Title(s):
Strangers on the Praia (en)
Author(s):
Paul French
Languages available:
English
Edition(s):
Blacksmith Books, 2020
Genre(s):
Historical
Hong Kong
Japanese occupation
Politics
Refugees
Second world war
A tale of refugees and resistance in wartime Macao.
Based on true stories and new research, Paul French weaves together the stories of those Jewish refugees who moved on from wartime Shanghai to seek a possible route to freedom via the Portuguese colony of Macao - "the Casablanca of the Orient".
The delicately balanced neutral enclave became their wartime home, amid Nazi and Japanese spies, escaped Allied prisioners from Hong Kong, and displaced Chinese.
Strangers on the Praia relates the story of one young woman's struggle for freedom that would ultimately prove an act of brave resistance.
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