To you, reader. Thank you for reading this novel!
FURTHER READING
This is a pandemic book. I’m indebted to the following authors, whose memoirs, research, and scholarship helped me visualize Vienna and walk through the painful period of history.
Around the Globe in Twenty Years, by Irena Wiley, illustrated with drawings by the author Broken Threads: The Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry in Germany and Austria, edited by Roberta S. Kremer Diplomat Rescuers and the Story of Feng Shan Ho, produced by the Vancouver Holocaust Education Center in partnership with Visas for Life: The Righteous Diplomats and Manli Ho Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer, by Bettina Stangneth Holocaust and Human Behavior, published by Facing History and Ourselves
My Forty Years as a Diplomat, by Feng-Shan Ho, translated and edited by Dr. Monto Ho The Four-Front War: The Most Daring Rescue Operation of the Century, by William R. Perl The Green Bottle: The True Story of One Family’s Journey from War-Torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai, by Vivian Jeanette Kaplan Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas, by Arthur Schnitzler, translated by Margret Schaefer Schindler’s List, by Thomas Keneally
The Tobacconist, by Robert Seethaler, translated by Charlotte Collins
We Shall Not Forget! Memories of the Holocaust, edited by Carole Garbuny Vogel The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, by Michael Berenbaum The World of Yesterday, by Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell
（Forty Years of a Diplomatic Career）， by Dr. Ho Fengshan, published in Chinese
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Weina Dai Randel is the award-winning author of The Last Rose of Shanghai as well as The Moon in the Palace and The Empress of Bright Moon, a historical duology about Wu Zetian, China’s only female emperor. Weina is the winner of the RWA RITA Award, a National Jewish Book Award finalist, a Goodreads Choice Award semifinalist, and an RT Reviewers’ Choice Award nominee. Her books have been translated into twelve languages and sold worldwide. Born in China, Weina came to the United States at twenty-four. She holds an MA in English from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas. Interviews with Weina have appeared on WFAA’s Good Morning Texas and in such publications as China Daily, World Literature Today, the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, and Los Angeles Review of Books. After living in Texas for years, Weina now resides in Boston with her loving husband, two children, and a family of chipmunks in the backyard. For information, visit www.weinarandel.com.