num_pages: 352
description: Return to World War II Shanghai in Dan Kalla's thrilling historical novel Rising Sun Falling Shadow the sequel to The Far Side of the SkyIts 1943 and the Japanese juggernaut has swallowed Shanghai and the rest of eastern China snaring droves of American and British along with thousands of stateless German Jewish refugees. Despite the hostile environs newlyweds Dr. Franz Adler and his wife Sunny adjust to life running the citys only hospital for refugee Jews.Bowing to Nazi pressure the Japanese force twenty thousand Jewish refugees including the Adlers to relocate to a one-square-kilometer Shanghai Ghetto. Heat hunger and tropical diseases are constant threats. But the ghetto also breeds miraculous resilience. Music theater sports and Jewish culture thrive despite what are at times subhuman conditions.Navigating subversion and espionage Nazi treachery and ever-worsening conditions while living under the heel of the Japanese military the Adlers struggle to keep the hospital open and their family safe and united.
language: English
title: Rising Sun, Falling Shadow
publisher: Forge Books