基本信息出版社：William Heinemann Ltd
页码：384 页
出版日期：2002年01月
ISBN：0434008885
International Standard Book Number：0434008885
条形码：9780434008889
EAN：9780434008889
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 An astonishingly accomplished, vibrant and moving first novel set against the Shanghai background of Empire of the Sun and taking the reader to a final resolution in today's Los Angeles.
媒体推荐 The distant land of Bo Caldwell's title is Shanghai - the place with which Anna Schoene's self-made ex-pat father has fallen in love, and invested with a sense of glamour and ownership. To his only child, it is home, pure and simple, until war and the Japanese invasion uproot her and her mother, sending them back to the unfamiliar safety of America. Her father is supposedly soon to follow. None of them yet knows that this is the last time they will ever live together as a family. Through the medium of her dead father's diaries, a much older Anna traces his progress through the 1940s and '50s from millionaire, to Japanese prisoner, to interpreter, to faithless deserter of his family, to entrepreneur, to Chinese prisoner, to penniless deportee, to his final reappearance in her life after her mother's death, as a janitor in an office block. And together with the remarkable changes to her father's fortunes, Anna charts the ebbs and flows of her relationship with him, from childish admiration through adolescent disgust and rejection through to full acceptance as a grown woman. (Kirkus UK)