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Here is the powerful Chinese book about love and war on which Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern; Crouching Tiger, Invisible Dragon) has structured his latest film, starring Christian Bale, to be released in 2012. This moving short novel is based on true situations that took place through the Nanjing Massacre in 1937, when the Japanese invaded the Chinese language city, slaughtering not only military but raping and murdering the civilian inhabitants as well. It instructs the story associated with an American missionary who, for a couple terrifying days, finds himself sheltering several schoolgirls, prostitutes, and wounded Chinese language military in the mixture of his church. American priest Daddy Engelmann is one of the tiny group of Westerners who've remained in Nanjing, regardless of the approach of the Japanese. America is not yet in the war and so his church mixture is supposedly natural territory. However, his self-assurance in his ability to provide for the Chinese language schoolgirls left in his health care is shaken when 13 prostitutes from the floating brothel on the near by Yangtze River climb within the compound wall structure and demand to be hidden. The problem becomes even more extreme when some wounded Chinese language soldiers appear. On the other hand, Engelmann is now increasingly alert to the barbaric behavior of the Japanese outside the mixture walls. It is merely a matter of energy before they knock on the entranceway and find people he is protecting. Like Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française, this poignant audiobook talks about the effect upon individuals of large-scale war and tragedy. The characters are beautifully noticed. Through the naive schoolgirls, the brazen prostitutes, and the frightened military to the just a bit priggish priest and his resentful Chinese language entourage. As the Japanese circle ever nearer, the obstacles of hatred and prejudice that individual the characters dissolve, plus they perform unforeseen and moving functions of heroism. Geling Yan, an important Chinese language writer, uncovers herself to be a master of information and sentiment in this book. She recreates background as though it is unfolding before our sight, and writes characters that are so interesting and so abundant that we have confidence in them entirely. This is a novel filled with humanity - at its most severe with its best - and a fascinating information into 1930s China.
