Nanjing requiem
Nanjing requiemHa Jin

Nanjing requiem (2011)

Ha Jin

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During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women's college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a violent Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee center for ten thousand women and children.

ISBN:
9780307379764
Length:
303 pages

Genres: historical fiction

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I actually picked up Nanjing Reququum earlier this year and I was enjoying it. The writing was solid, but it's about the Nank King massacre and I just read something else that was a bit violent and I just needed a break from books about war and violence.

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