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By Hong Zheng

Set within the urban of Nanjing in the course of the time of the Sino-Japanese conflict (1937--1945), this novel tells the tale of 4 humans stuck up within the violence and tumult of those years: John Winthrop and his MIT classmate, the intense chinese language physicist Calvin Ren (Ren Kewen); Judy, Calvin's Chinese-American spouse; and the attractive and decided younger lady Chen might. John and Calvin soak up positions at Nanjing's nationwide significant collage and collaborate on a top-secret venture to layout and construct warplanes to allow the chinese language to safeguard themselves opposed to eastern bombers. in the meantime, John enjoys his new existence in Nanjing. He is helping the beautiful could along with her English, falling a bit in love along with her; he outlets for antiques; meets with Chiang Kai-Shek and Madame Chiang; and as soon as attends an evening's leisure at one in all Nanjing's infamous Wine homes. but if the japanese invade, there is not any secure position within the urban. the japanese homicide, torture, and rape indiscriminately. (The invasion and profession have been defined via the historian Iris Chang as "the forgotten holocaust.") may well sees her family killed; John works in a look after for girls and kids; Calvin's kin flees the town whereas Calvin, weakened by way of overwork, remains at the back of to paintings at the warplane venture. every one attempts to outlive opposed to the percentages. could vows to seek down the soldier who murders her father. whilst the struggle is over, she reveals him sweeping Nanjing streets as a conflict prisoner. the tale then ends with the strength of an explosion.Vivid and tense, Nanjing by no means Cries bargains a compelling tale of the horror of warfare and the facility of affection and friendship.

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