Night in Shanghai AUTH-14166404 but Allan has a larger-than-life

but Allan has a larger-than-life backstory: Not only has he witnessed some of the most important events of the twentieth century

poet-translator Levinson-LaBrosse

Stonewall Jackson

and wonderfully droll (The New York Times Book Review)

ISBN13: 9780802145994

Night in Shanghai AUTH-14166404 but Allan has a larger-than-lifeFrom the author of The Last Chinese Chef, a love story between a black musician and a gangster's translator set against Shanghai's dazzling jazz age and the looming menace of World War II, and a rich and thoroughly captivating read. (Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai's Garden) "Historical fiction at its best." Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered Sailing to Shanghai in 1936, Thomas Greene goes from playing classical piano for pennies in segregated