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Interview with SupChina – Macau as a refuge for Jews: Paul French novella ‘Strangers on the Praia’

Posted: November 16th, 2020 | No Comments »

“Stories on the margins are good,” says bestselling author Paul French. In his latest book, the novella “Strangers on the Praia,” he tells the story of young Jewish women who fled Japanese-occupied Shanghai to Portuguese Macau, a city that represented for them one thing: hope.

A Q&A with me by Alex Smith on Strangers on the Praia, Macao and WW2 as well as writing about liminal characters in this week’s SupChina….Click here



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