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From the author of The Last Rose of Shanghai comes a profoundly moving novel about a diplomatic couple who risked their lives to help Viennese Jews escape the Nazis, inspired by the true story of Dr. Ho Fengshan, Righteous Among the Nations.1938. Dr. Ho Fengshan, consul general of China, is posted in Vienna with his American wife, Grace. Shy and ill at ease with the societal obligations of diplomats’ wives, Grace is an outsider in a city beginning to feel the sweep of the Nazi dragnet. When Grace forms a friendship with her Jewish tutor, Lola Schnitzler, Dr. Ho requests that Grace keep her distance. His instructions are to maintain amicable relations with the Third Reich, and he and Grace are already under their vigilant eye.But when Lola’s family is subjugated to a brutal pogrom, Dr. Ho decides to issue them visas to Shanghai. As violence against the Jews escalates after Kristallnacht and threats mount, Dr. Ho must issue thousands more to help Jews escape Vienna before World War II explodes.Inspired by a remarkable true story, Night Angels explores the risks brave souls took and the love and friendship they built and lost while fighting against incalculable evil.

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Author : Weina Dai Randel
★★★★☆ 4.4 from 5 stars (10399 Reviews)
Langue : English
ISBN-10 : 1542038006
File size: 19 MB

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This book is about Ho Fengshan, a Chinese diplomat stationed in Vienna in the mid-to-late 30's, just before WWII. He is an actual historical figure, and the novel is a dramatization of what it might have been like during that horrible time when the Nazis were beginning their horrible solution to the "Jewish problem."Fengshan was married to a woman named Grace, a half-Chinese American woman, who is depicted in the book as being very childlike and dreamy--not very engaged with issues or the world, but very young and beautiful and an asset for Fengshan to take around to the numerous gatherings, parties and soirees that he must attend. However, Grace is just extremely introverted and not confident at all; she doesn't speak either German OR Chinese, she is lonely and isolated and withdrawn. Her husband is aware of this, and he hires her a tutor to teach her to speak German--a young woman named Lola Schnitzler. The two women meet in the park, and Grace is immediately captivated by Lola's strength and optimism, but from that first meeting something goes horribly wrong; Lola sits on a bench in the park and she and Grace are arrested by the Gestapo. Of course, this is because Lola is Jewish and because Grace cannot read the small sign on the bench, which prohibits Jews from using the bench in any way, to warn her not to sit there. The women are taken to the Gestapo headquarters where they meet Adolph Eichmann, and his gang of sadistic thugs. Lola is beaten, Grace, being the wife of the Chinese diplomat, is released earlier and treated somewhat better, but it focuses Eichmann's attention on her and her husband, and he begins a systematic harrassment of both, as much as he can get away with.Lola and Grace, however, manage through all of this to become friends--Grace's first and only friend in Vienna, and it brings Grace out of her shell and gives her confidence, and shows her that she has more strength than she knows. Over the next two years as the War ramps up and Hitler's tactics remove more and more freedoms from the Viennese Jews, this proves to be the saving of Grace, her husband, and even Grace's relationship with her 9 year old stepson Monto, whom she was convinced hated her.The story moves on through the machinations of the Holocaust and Grace and her husband Fengshan diverge into different coping strategies--Grace involves herself with Lola and her family, helping them get out of Vienna, encouraging her husband to grant them exit visas to Shanghai, getting Lola's niece Eva (also 9 years old) to safety in Britain by smuggling her to a rescue organization. And as she gains in strength and involvement, so does Fengshan--who defies his government's orders by issuing thousands and thousands of visas to Jews, until Eichmann manages to get them all sent to concentration camps or extermination centers. Fengshan becomes obsessed with saving as many as he can, even though he has no idea if any of the visas he issues are doing them any good. (They were. They DID.) And though there is some separation in their goals and activities, Grace manages to become pregnant--something she has always wanted. But Eichmann proves to be the worst villain of all. At the climax of the book, a tragedy occurs that will change everyone's lives, and which will nearly kill Grace, and it is Eichmann's fault entirely.The couple take different paths in their grief and to face the horrors that are uncovered by this situation, and Grace retreats even further than she was at the beginning. Fengshan risks his own life and puts his career on the line. Lola, who had been taken into custody again and sent to a ghetto and labor camp, has seemingly disappeared from Grace's life. She sinks into despair.I won't tell you how this ends, though you might think you know anyway. If you have seen Ken Burns' film "The US and the Holocaust" you will see how meticulously and accurately this novel has been researched. It's a fine companion to that film, in fact. The characterizations of Fengshan, Grace and Lola are spot on, and descriptions are perfectly drawn to evoke the time and place.I thoroughly enjoyed this book, despite its subject matter, which is just not pleasant to know or read about. I recommend it. The writing is quite good. And discovering that Fengshan was actually a real person, and that he saved thousands of Viennese Jews through defiance of his own government, and while his country was under attack by the Japanese, is uplifting. So few stories of the Holocaust are. The author does not stint on her historical facts, though she says she has "imagined" the daily life of Fengshan, and invented Lola and Grace's relationship entirely. It matters little. She manages to evoke the time and attitudes perfectly. This is an excellent read. Night Angels: A Novel ePUB Kindle Download lire en ligne This was a book that Amazon offered at no charge for their First Look--I basically snagged it because of the cover...and ended up with my first 5 star rating for 2023!Based on a little known story of a Chinese diplomat who saved THOUSANDS of Viennese Jews by issuing Chinese visas to get them out the country...Yes, you read that right. This is based on a real man who had a hand in saving UNKNOWN thousands of Jews...right from the heart of Vienna while it's overtaken by Nazis.I was taken in from the beginning. The author wove brilliant passages of narrative. I SAW Vienna! I felt the emotions of the two primary characters Dr. Ho and his wife Grace. The book was very well written from a dual narrative of Dr. Ho and Grace. Through Grace you experience what it was like to be a Chinese-American who doesn't speak anything but English in a Chinese embassy in Vienna. She has no place. No friends. A shell of a woman who hides in her Emily Dickinson poetry. She has a complete journey through the course of the book and she changes and grows. Dr. Ho's experiences in Vienna are different as being fluent in three languages and a Diplomat who is active in society.Then Grace meets Lola ( a Viennese Jew) and her life and that of Dr. Ho's is changed forever as they have to come to a monumental decision about whether or not to risk it all to save a people not their own.I can assure you--that you will get angry at the western and European nations at their "turning a blind eye" to the life-threatening danger ridden plight of the Jews in their region. You will despise Eichmann and be yelling at them to not trust him. Your heart will rend with the descriptions of Kristallnacht and you will cringe with the brutality described--especially since you know it to be true.I simply cannot give this book anything less than 5 stars. I didn't tear up, but I was still moved emotionally--to anger. To despair. To worry about what would happen to the characters. I didn't want to stop reading...I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants a different view on the events leading up to the Holocaust--especially since it's based on a TRUE story that you may not have heard about before. According to the author, this was only learned after Dr. Ho died in 1997 and his papers were found. What a story. What an incredible human being who risked it all. PDF Night Angels: A Novel download now ePUB Night Angels: A Novel pdf online Download [PDF] Night Angels: A Novel