The Box with the Sunflower Clasp - Uncovering a Jewish Family's Flight to Wartime Shanghai

A sweeping family memoir that tells the hidden history of a young Jewish woman's escape from 1930s Vienna to Shanghai.

About the author

Rachel Meller grew up near London, the middle daughter of Austrian Jewish refugees. After studying neurobiology at Sussex, and research into hormones and behaviour at Cambridge, she became a writer in a communication consultancy. The Box with the Sunflower Clasp is her first book.

Summary

A sweeping family memoir that tells the hidden history of a young Jewish woman's escape from 1930s Vienna to Shanghai.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Meller
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781785789816
• ISBN: 978-1-78578-981-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 555 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; China, Europe, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, Memoirs, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, The Holocaust, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs