NIGHT IN SHANGHAI

Book ID/图书代码： 06580014B67173

English Summary/英文概要： A sweeping story of music, love, race, and war, by the award-winning author of The Last Chinese Chef

Thomas Greene, a classical pianist, is recruited to Shanghai in 1936 to lead a jazz orchestra of other African American expats. Upon arrival he goes from being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, the toast of a city obsessed with music, money, pleasure and power, even as it ignores the rising winds of war.

Song Yuhua is refined, educated, and bonded since age eighteen to Shanghai’s most powerful crime boss in payment for her father’s gambling debts. Outwardly submissive, she burns with rage, and risks her life spying on her master for the Communist Party.

Only when Shanghai is shattered by the Japanese invasion do Song and Thomas find their way to each other. Though their union is forbidden, neither can back down from it in the turbulent years of occupation and resistance that follow. Torn between music and survival, freedom and commitment, love and world war, they are borne on an irresistible riff of melody and improvisation to Night in Shanghai’s final, impossible choice.

In this meticulously researched novel, Nicole Mones not only tells the behind-the-scenes-story of black musicians in China, but she also weaves in a stunning true tale of Holocaust heroism little-known in the West.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 徜徉在1936年上海爵士乐团,被种族隔离来自巴尔的摩身无分文的托马斯•格林,与自己的仆人生活在豪宅里,用他的所受到的古典爵士乐熏陶,全新出发的他，进行着一项几乎不可逾越的挑战。他疯狂地追寻着财富,地位,和爱情-直到第二次世界大战的爆发最终改变了他的生活。这个故事完全源于历史真实事件,充满了上世纪那个时代的真正个性,《夜上海》是一段翻阅历史时刻的神奇篇章，直到现在,几乎完全被岁月渐渐褪去痕迹。《夜上海》将同时在2014年3月4日在多个国家发行。相信那些喜爱旧上海风貌，是追忆“上海老客勒”的一部最为纯正的咖啡相册！(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况："Ambitious...enlightening…keep(s) the suspense mounting until the end."—Kirkus Reviews

"With a magician’s sleight of hand, Nicole Mones conjures up the jazz-filled, complex, turbulent world of Shanghai just before World War II. Mones has recreated a feast for the senses, transporting us to the rich, decadent city in which the lives and loves of expatriate musicians intertwine with the growing tensions between the Communist Party and the Nationalist Party, while the ominous threats from the Japanese stir the winds of war. A rich and thoroughly captivating read."—Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai’s Garden and A Hundred Flowers

“Every page in Mones’ compelling, sexy and richly textured novel reveals some custom, some costume, some trick of language that exposes a fascinating moment in history –the Japanese invasion of Shanghai on the eve of World War II. Mones weaves the multiple strands of her story much the way themes and melodies are woven into the jazz her protagonist plays, with subtle and suggestive undertones of human greed, power, and passion.” —Marisa Silver, author of Mary Coin. "Amid the plethora of World War II fiction, Mones’s fourth novel (after The Last Chinese Chef) offers a rarely seen African American and Asian perspective. Fans of works such as Amor Towles’s Rules of Civility will appreciate the use of jazz as the backdrop to a world at war. Historical fiction fans will not be disappointed." —Library Journal “In the early 1930s, as the world teeters on the brink of war, struggling musician Thomas Greene leaves the South’s racial prejudices behind when he accepts an offer from a Chinese nightclub owner to headline a jazz band in Shanghai. Though the classically trained pianist is uncomfortable with this new style of music, he is ecstatic to be free of the Jim Crow laws that have impeded his success at home. As Greene embraces the relative freedom that life in this cosmopolitan city affords, he becomes increasingly embroiled in both the criminal and Communist

underworlds that are threatened by the imminent Japanese invasion. Through his love for party sympathizer Song Yuhua and friendship with protector of Jews Lin Ming, Greene finds himself at the epicenter of world-shattering events. Based on true episodes and peppered with the lives and experiences of actual characters from the worlds of politics, music, the military, and the government, Mones’ engrossing historical novel illuminates the danger, depravity, and drama of this dark period with brave authenticity.” — Carol Haggas, Booklist

About the Author/作者介绍： 1977年，尼科尔就已开始在中国的经商生涯，在经历了文革之后。其作为一位从事中国纺织行业已有十八个年头的独立经营者，她转行开始撰写关于这个神秘东方国度的小说。她的小说《夜上海》，《中国最后一个厨师》，《迷失的翻译》和《夜光杯》已被译成22种语言出版，并荣获了无数奖项，其中包括卡夫卡奖(美国女性作家年度最佳小说奖)，和桐山奖(入围促进环太平洋文化互动交流最佳小说奖)。
蒙斯关于中国的非小说作品还同时出现在《纽约时报杂志》、《食客》杂志、《洛杉矶时报》和《华盛顿邮报》。她是美国国家中美关系委员会的成员之一。

NICOLE MONES is the prize-winning author of three previous novels, The Last Chinese Chef, Lost in Translation, and A Cup of Light, which have been published in more than twenty-five countries. Her nonfiction writing on China has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Gourmet, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. She is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. www.nicolemones.com

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：RIGHTS SOLD: US/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Australia/HarperCollins; Serbia/Laguna PREVIOUS PUBLISHERS: Bulgaria/Gourmet Publishing; Brazil/Objetiva-Suma de Letras; Croatia/Zhanje; Czech Republic/Dita; Greece/Editions Melani; Hungary/Tiari; Israel/Kinneret; Italy/Neri Pozza; Latvia/Kontinents; Lithuania/Svajoniu; Korea/Prunsoop; Poland/Świat Książki; Spain/Nablas Ediciones; Thailand Matichon Publishing House; Turkey/Yakamoz/Dogan

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