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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 Sky
It's 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 city's 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.
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- Sales Rank: #192238 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-09-24
- Released on: 2013-09-24
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
In this sequel to The Far Side of the Sky (2012), Kalla delivers a gripping blend of suspense thriller and survival story, set in occupied Shanghai during WWII. As Jewish refugees in Singapore are herded into the ghetto, Dr. Franz Adler and his wife, Sunny, struggle to keep their hospital afloat. The medical drama in the ill-supplied hospital is as fast paced and detailed as that of the best hospital television shows, and, although the characters run to types, Kalla manages to capture variations in their levels of ability and endurance. As the characters struggle to evade detection by both German Nazis and Japanese, heroism springs from humble sources, as the city changes from colorful metropolis to grimy ghost town, a transformation vividly realized through the eyes of Shanghai’s longtime residents. Despite its grim subject matter, this gripping historical novel communicates a hopeful message about the power of love and friendship to overcome hatred. --Bridget Thoreson
Review
“An amazing novel.” ―The Huffington Post on The Far Side Of The Sky
“With its unusual setting and blend of terror, hope, and love, this historical novel deserves a wide readership.” ―Library Journal, starred review on The Far Side Of The Sky
“An exciting, often touching story that combines wartime peril and romance in an attractive mix…. [Kalla] knows how to weave a good tale, and his characters are endearing.” ―Booklist on The Far Side Of The Sky
“I ate up this novel…. Recommended.” ―Historical Novel Society on The Far Side Of The Sky
“That's storytelling, pure and simple.” ―The National Post on The Far Side Of The Sky
“A big-canvas story with some very well-drawn characters.” ―The Globe and Mail on The Far Side Of The Sky
About the Author
DANIEL KALLA is the internationally bestselling author of eight novels, including Pandemic, which has been optioned for film adaptation. His fiction has been translated into ten languages around the world. He practices emergency medicine in Vancouver, B.C., where he lives with his family. This is the final novel in his Shanghai trilogy, following The Far Side of the Sky and its sequel, Rising Sun, Falling Shadow.
Web: danielkalla.com
Facebook: Daniel Kalla, Author
Twitter: @DanielKalla
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Literary, etc Review
By Jess
Daniel Kalla's RISING SUN, FALLING SHADOW is the highly anticipated sequel to THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY. If you're worried about spoilers, you won't find any major ones preventing you from enjoying RISING SUN. Kalla provides enough back-story and allows a reader to delve right in without being lost.
The year is 1943 and bowing to Nazi pressure, the Japanese force thousands of Jewish refugees in Shanghai to relocate. Newlyweds Franz and Sunny Adler endure the move to the ghetto and continue to operate the only hospital for Jewish refugees amid difficult conditions. While Franz is willing to make the best of the situation, Sunny wants revenge for the death of her father. She joins a resistance group, believing in their cause while Franz's daughter, Hannah is lured into a smuggling ring. The threat of Nazi interference lingers in the background while a power hungry representative of the Bureau of Stateless Refugee Affairs begins to make life difficult for those in the ghetto.
Kalla's RISING SUN, FALLING SHADOW has it all: love, intrigue, and betrayal. We have good character development and although this is the second book in a series, I don't feel as if Kalla stopped developing his characters. We get to know each one as if it were our first introduction. Franz Adler is a Jewish surgeon who is noble and isn't afraid to stop an injustice. He also is cautious and would do anything to protect his family. His wife Sunny is courageous and caring. While his daughter, Hannah, struggles to be seen as a teenager. She's aware of her surroundings and doesn't like to be treated as a child. We have a wide cast of secondary characters who are friends of the Adler's who become ours as well. Kalla also introduces us to historical figures including Baron Jesco von Puttkamer who was a German aristocrat in charge of organizing a German propaganda office. Although never proven, it's been suggested that Von Puttkamer was present during a Japanese / German meeting where the Germans tried to convince the Japanese to put all Jewish refugees in a concentration camp or kill them. Von Puttkamer plays a vital role in RISING SUN alongside the sadistic Kano Ghoya who would later become the ex-vice chief of the Bureau of Stateless Refugee Affairs.
The writing is engaging and heartfelt. Kalla has a talent for bringing wartime Shanghai to life. We have a few subplots running alongside and at times it felt disjointed, but it's needed. Without them, we have an incomplete story and in many ways, each character has their own plot which is important in a historical fiction novel. Can I take a moment to discuss the emotions Kalla evokes? I could sense Jia-Li's optimism the moment she spots American planes in the sky and was smiling because I knew she was happy to see them. I could feel Sunny's anxiousness when she realizes the Underground isn't exactly what she thought they were. When Hannah is involved in a smuggling scheme and she's about to cross out of the restricted zone or even into it, her hesitation and fear is felt. Kalla makes us care about the daily lives of these characters, even the ones we should hate. He also makes us question what the characters are doing. For example, Franz struggles with a difficult decision that goes against the Hippocratic Oath and one of the Ten Commandments. I won't go into detail because I don't want to give a spoiler, but as a reader, you understand Franz's thought process. You put yourself into his shoes and begin to question what you would do. Another doctor, Max, begins to question God and goes as far as to say they aren't his chosen people but rather cursed. If you're religious, your heart begins to break when you begin to think of your own relationship to religion or God.
One of the reasons people shy away from historical fiction is because they are afraid of drowning in historical facts or find history boring. While Kalla does give us a history lesson, he does it in a subtle format. He takes us through 1943 and the events in Shanghai; Jewish refugees are moved to the Hongkou District where a little over 20,000 refugees lived in an area of approximately one square mile. We see Franz call himself stateless and here Kalla explains how and what the Japanese have done to them. Kalla delves deeper into history by writing about the refugees that are often ignored by history. We often read about European Jews and how many fled to allied countries, but how many of us actually knew of Jewish refugees in China or the German support of the Japanese? I can only imagine the level of research Kalla conducted. He does a superb job transporting the reader to 1943 and making us feel as if we are there.
What I really enjoyed about Kalla's RISING SUN, FALLING SHADOW is the message throughout the novel: hope. Through the despair of war and when things look bleak, Kalla reminds us, through our darkest moments there is always a glimpse of light. I'm pretty sure the title wasn't intentional, but if we take a moment to think about the Second World War: it ends in 1945 with the Japanese finally surrendering in September. Kalla's RISING SUN ends at the start of 1944. While these characters still have a little over a year and half to go, the shadow of war is beginning to fall and at the end of it, is light.
And as for the ending, I wouldn't call it a cliffhanger. Kalla provides enough closure and it's easy to imagine the final year of the war and the fate of our friends. There are a few unanswered questions that I hope get addressed in the final installment and I can't wait to see how the series concludes.
If you're a fan of historical fiction or are interested in the Second War World, I highly recommend Daniel Kalla's RISING SUN, FALLING SHADOW. I can't wait to go back and read THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY.
**This review is posted on my blog**
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
WWII - International Community in Shanghai and Jewish Refugees
By M. J. Bair
Taking a breather from non-fiction books concerning pre-WWII, the war years and post-war years, I turn to fiction within the same time frame.
This book is the second book of the Shanghai series, a continuation of the family and friends of Franz Adler. It is yet another story based on historical facts of the plight of Jewish refugees from Europe who have escaped one enemy only to find that they are in the grips of another. The threads of survival, of goodness and evil, of friends supporting each other in dire circumstances - people who try to find happiness and love while living in terrible conditions.
I'm looking forward to the next book in this series.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
SHANGHAI 1943 - BATTERED, BRUISED YET RESILIENT
By KOMET
"Rising Sun, Falling Shadows" takes up from where 'The Far Side of the Sky' left off. It is January 1943. Shanghai and its inhabitants, firmly in Japan's vise-like grip, continue to struggle against the brutality and savagery of a war that seemingly has no end. Both the city's Jewish refugees and Allied civilians become subject to greater scrutiny on the part of the Japanese. The former group, by order of the military governor of Shanghai, is compelled to sell their homes and personal belongings by May 18th and are relocated into "a narrow area within Hongkew, one of the most crowded boroughs in the city." This is exactly what a small contingent of Nazis residing in the German section of Shanghai desire. For having been frustrated the previous year --- by their Japanese allies --- in their efforts to have Shanghai's Jews exterminated, the Germans (as represented by Von Puttkamer, who on the surface comes across as suave, urbane and a fellow-well-met, yet underneath it all, is a rabid Nazi) become fixated on destroying the Jewish 'ghetto' in Shanghai with/without the sanction of the Japanese authorities. As for the latter group (i.e., Allied civilians), they are forced by the Japanese to live in an internment camp under their direct control.
All the while, Soon Yi (better known as "Sunny") and her beloved husband Franz Adler are hard pressed to keep the Jewish hospital open in which they both work as physicians. Furthermore, the Adler Family and many of their close friends and associates in Shanghai find themselves throughout 1943 under threat from several quarters. The drama and tension are so skillfully rendered by the author that I soon found myself thoroughly immersed in the lives of the main characters. Indeed, “Rising Sun, Falling Shadows” is a story that the general reader will find him/herself deeply immersed in its flow, intensity, and the reality it conveys of a wartime city that has been scarred and battered almost beyond recognition. (VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.)
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