From 1938 to the early 1940s, nearly 17,000 German and Austrian Jews fled to Shanghai, China. Until August 1938, no visas were required to enter Shanghai. Proof of ship’s passage out of Germany was enough to escape – even from a concentration camp. Author Daniel Kalla has set his historical novel, The Far Side of the Sky, in this extraordinary time and place. The book is the first of a trilogy that includes Rising Sun, Falling Shadow and Nightfall over Shanghai.
