Klim Rogov, a Russian journalist famous for his wit, used to be a rich man who won the heart of a brilliant, passionate young business woman Nina Kupina. They don’t care if it makes other white people look not so exceptional in front of the locals. But then, a horde of strangers enter the city and ruin the perfect world Europeans and Americans built for themselves in China. Fleeing the Bolsheviks, Russian refugees arrive in thousands, noblemen and common laborers alike, ready to take any job and get their hands dirty. White colonialists in Shanghai see themselves as an impregnable supreme race. From an internationally acclaimed author Elvira Baryakina, who masterfully blends in multicultural backgrounds, flamboyant characters of differing nationalities, and mesmerizing plot, comes a new historical novel about an unthinkable turn of events in the early 1920s.
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