The distant land of my father
By: Bo Caldwell.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Children of missionaries -- Fiction; Millionaires -- Fiction; Smugglers -- Fiction; Shanghai (China) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Anna had a charmed childhood in 1930s Shanghai with her smuggler father. Anna and her mother fled the Japanese occupation and settled in California, but her father stayed behind. Fifteen years later, Anna is grown with a family of her own in Los Angeles when her father reappears.