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A Los Angeles Times Bestseller award-winning author Bo Caldwell''s The Distant Land of My Father is a powerful fictional memoir of longing and guilt that will resonate with curious sensitive daughters and with independent perhaps secretive fathers (The News & Observer -Raleigh)Anna the narrator of this riveting novel lives in a storybook world: exotic pre-World War II Shanghai with handsome young parents wealth and comfort. Her father the son of missionaries leads a charmed and secretive life though his greatest joy is sharing his beloved city with his only daughter. Yet when Anna and her mother flee Japanese-occupied Shanghai to return to California he stays behind believing his connections and a little bit of luck will keep him safe. Through Anna''s memories and her father''s journals we learn of his fall from charismatic millionaire to tortured prisoner in a story of betrayal and reconciliation that spans two continents. Breathtaking and richly lyrica The Distant Land of My Father unfolds to reveal an enduring family love through tragic circumstances.