读过《The Last Rose of Shanghai》 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
讲真这个背景设定，抗战时期的上海大小姐和犹太难民，我真的很喜欢，然后这个故事的展开和人物的塑造，so disappointing……每一个人物都好刻板……男主的妹妹前半程讨人厌后半程工具人，女主的丈夫从控制狂偏执狂突然变成舔狗，最后还来个认亲可真是肥皂剧感拉满，最不能接受的其实是那个日本兵的设定，就，把日本兵的暴行简化成和一个日本人的私人恩怨，是不是有点太曲解战争了，还是全上海只有这一个日本兵，文笔也基本就是流水账的水平，浪费了一个看起来还挺promising的题材
The Last Rose of Shanghai [Book] Douban
author:
Weina Dai Randel
publishing house:
Lake Union Publishing
2021
1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers. He loses nearly all hope until he crosses paths with Aiyi. When she hires Ernest to play piano at her club, her defiance of custom causes a sensation. His instant fame makes Aiyi’s club once again the hottest spot in Shanghai. Soon they realize they share more than a passion for jazz―but their differences seem insurmountable, and Aiyi is engaged to another man.
As the war escalates, Aiyi and Ernest find themselves torn apart, and their choices between love and survival grow more desperate. In the face of overwhelming odds, a chain of events is set in motion that will change both their lives forever.
From the electrifying jazz clubs to the impoverished streets of a city under siege, The Last Rose of Shanghai is a timeless, sweeping story of love and redemption.
As the war escalates, Aiyi and Ernest find themselves torn apart, and their choices between love and survival grow more desperate. In the face of overwhelming odds, a chain of events is set in motion that will change both their lives forever.
From the electrifying jazz clubs to the impoverished streets of a city under siege, The Last Rose of Shanghai is a timeless, sweeping story of love and redemption.