Zhang Yawen

Broschiertes Buch

Playing Chess with the Devil

Beschreibung

When fascism threatened to engulf humanity, a few great souls stood up to be counted. Spanning Europe and Asia, Playing Chess with the Devil is the true story of the remarkable people who risked their lives to protect countless civilians from the Nazis and the Japanese during the second world war. Among these heroic individuals were a German military governor, a Chinese housewife, a Danish sailor, an American missionary and two China-based German businessmen. This is an updated and extended version of Zhang Yawen's award-winning 2002 novel A Chinese Woman at Gestapo Gunpoint, which has been adapted for the small screen and broadcast in a primetime national TV slot in China. In 2015, the book was selected by Chinese President Xi Jinping as a gift for King Philippe of Belgium. Based on extensive interviews and research, Zhang not only presents the dramatic events surrounding the resistance to fascism, but also delivers a passionate plea for mankind to learn from the mistakes of the past.

Autor

Zhang Yawen was born in a poverty-stricken remote mountain region of Liaoning province, northeast China in 1944. She had to walk for 10 kilometres each day to get to school, and the Cultural Revolution prevented her from going to college. Her writing career began in 1979 with a 3,000-word story that was published in a newspaper. Since then, she has travelled around 10 countries and written more than eight million words, including her autobiography Cry For Life. Her dramatisation of the life of Qian Xiuling, a Chinese woman who saved more than a hundred citizens of Belgium with the help of the country's German military governor, was adapted for television and won the China Writers Association's 'Ordos' Prize for Literary Excellence. The film rights for this book, A Chinese Woman at Gestapo Gunpoint, were purchased in October 2017 for 2,400,000 CNY.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACA Publishing Limited
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781910760307
• ISBN-10: 1910760307
• Artikelnr.: 54443945