March 28, 2023

KITAAB

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Review: Night in Shanghai

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Night In Shanghai’ splits between a serious historical work and a silly romance novel

nightinshanghai-cvr-200When Nicole Mones published her first novel, 1998’s Lost In Translation, China was for many Americans a closed door. Mones, who owned a Chinese textile importing business, brought her Mandarin fluency and deep cultural knowledge of China to bear on a novel featuring an American interpreter fleeing the States, creating a bestseller. Two more novels followed, each featuring China. Neither matched Mones’s debut.

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