Shanghai Girls
by Lisa See
Taste attributes: historicaldramafamilyunsavouryheavylinearglossybig & variedemotive & stirringhuman spirit/resilience/survivalcomplex relationshipsocial commentary
Boxlist takeA stirring, wide-ranging historical novel, otherwise balanced. Best if you like stories that hit hard.
Taste details
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
Open Library rating
3.8 / 5
11 ratings
About This Book
In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father's prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives.
Description: Open Library
Characteristics
Where this book sits on each taste spectrum
Genres and themes
Subjects
Details
- Author
- Lisa See
- Published
- 2009
- Pages
- 433
- Taste scores
- How we score
- Source
- Open Library
How book matches work
Books are scored on the same ten characteristics as films and matched with the same formula and your own match bands. Book scores are estimates, made from Open Library subjects and descriptions plus an AI reading.
More books
Browse popular fiction and narrative non-fiction, with a match for your taste.
Browse Books