Pigerne fra Shanghai Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Lisa See
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TOTAL RATINGS
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Pigerne fra Shanghai by Lisa See Book Summary

Dette er historien om to kinesiske søstres skæbne og drømmen om Amerika.

Den 21-årige Pearl og hendes yngre søster May lever et ubekymret liv i 1930’ernes Shanghai – Asiens Paris. De har tilegnet sig en vestlig moderne livsstil, hvor det er slut med indsnørede fødder. Men selv om pigerne lever et frit liv, er Kina stadig et patriarkalsk samfund.
tDa faren mister sin rickshaw forretning pga. spillegæld, er det slut med det sorgløse liv. For at kunne indfri spillegælden "sælges" pigerne til ægteskab med tilsyneladende velstående kinesiske udvandrere i Los Angeles, men snart falder de japanske bomber over Shanghai, og alt er kaos. Søstrene og deres mor begiver sig ud på de støvede landeveje på flugt fra ægteskab og undertrykkelse, men kun for at møde en værre skæbne. Søstrene beslutter sig til sidst for at rejse til Amerika over til ægtemændene. Men vel ankommet til Angel Island – San Franciscos modtagelsessted for immigranter – venter nye prøvelser. Da søstrene endelig genforenes med deres mænd og svigerfamilie i filmbyen, er skuffelsen stor. Pigerne må kæmpe for deres plads i familien, arbejde hårdt i byens Chinatown og samtidig stå imod diskriminationen, der hersker uden for hjemmets fire vægge. Anden Verdenskrig, angrebet mod Pearl Harbor og den amerikanske modstand mod det kommunistiske styre i Kina gør ikke livet nemmere for de kinesiske immigranter i USA.

Lisa See har skrevet en velresearchet historisk roman, hvor hun endnu en gang formår at omskrive fakta til en interessant fortælling om søskendekærlighed og familieskæbner.

"Historiske fakta og en gribende historie går op i en højere enhed i denne roman om to kinesiske søstres flugt fra Shanghai og deres møde med USA."
- Litteratursiden
Lisa See er opvokset i Chinatown i Los Angeles sammen med sin store kinesiske indvandrerfamilie, og det kinesiske tema går igen i alle hendes bøger. På dansk er tidligere udkommet "Sneblomst og den hemmelige vifte" (2006) og "Pæonpavillonen" (2009).

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Book Name Pigerne fra Shanghai
Genre Fiction & Literature
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Language English
E-Book Size 1.04 MB

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The Pigerne fra Shanghai book written by Lisa See was published on 08 December 2022, Thursday in the Fiction & Literature category. A total of 92 readers of the book gave the book 0 points out of 5.

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