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Weina Dai Randel
Goodreads Author
Born
in China
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Arthur Golden, Mary Stewart
Member Since
October 2012
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The Last Rose of Shanghai
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2021
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22 editions
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Night Angels
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2023
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11 editions
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The Moon in the Palace (Empress of Bright Moon, #1)
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2016
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22 editions
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The Empress of Bright Moon (Empress of Bright Moon, #2)
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2016
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19 editions
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The Master Jeweler
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2025
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7 editions
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Night Angels longlisted for 2024 Massachusetts Book Awards
Massachusetts Center for the Book has just announced the longlists for the 24th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards. Thrilled to see Night Angels on the Fiction list! Thank you thank you!
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"Captivating
A friend suggested this book and I am grateful for that. It is an enduring love story about imperfect people living in excruciating times. They make mistakes, suffer unbearable losses, and find redemption in the end. Well written and intri" Read more of this review » |
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"Forbidden Love in Wartime Shanghai
The Last Rose of Shanghai swept me away- a forbidden love story set in 1940’s Shanghai that’s as heartbreaking as it is beautiful." |
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"“The Master Jeweler” is the first book I have read by acclaimed novelist Weina Dai Randel, but I certainly hope it isn’t the last. I enjoyed it from its first, intriguing lines to its infinitely satisfying last ones. In between I was beguiled by 350 "
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"In this fascinating new historical fiction novel from Weina Dai Randel, readers follow Anyu Zhang from Harbin, China, to Shanghai as she tracks down fugitive master jeweler Isaac Mandelburg and the Faberge egg he possesses. Introduced to the secretiv"
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The Master Jeweler has been out for a month. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you so much for reading this novel. In The Master Jeweler, I wanted to pay tribute to the life of an artist, the quiet nature of craftsmanship, and the potentially ...more |
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“The night garden felt like a home, with the glittering sky for the ceiling, the bushes our rug, and the dilapidated pavilion our bed. He lit up the place like a heart-warming hearth fire. He was the walls of my sanctuary, the food for my eyes, the scent of a home. He was everything.”
― The Moon in the Palace
― The Moon in the Palace
“I knew now: love and destiny were two wild horses that could not be curbed. They galloped in different directions and ran down different paths where streams of desire and hope would not converge. To follow one was to betray the other. To make one happy was to break the other's heart. Yet I supposed that was part of life, a lesson we had to learn. To grow up was also to give up, and to build the future was to dissolve the past. The only thing we could do was hope for the best, to believe that the horse we chose would find us a safe destination.”
― The Moon in the Palace
― The Moon in the Palace
“In truth, we were similar. Like two sides of a fan, we were at odds with each other, we competed with each other, but our fates similarly rested in the hands of the Emperor--the holder, the commander, the manipulator of our destinies.”
― The Moon in the Palace
― The Moon in the Palace
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“It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength. ”
― The Hollow Hills
― The Hollow Hills
“The night garden felt like a home, with the glittering sky for the ceiling, the bushes our rug, and the dilapidated pavilion our bed. He lit up the place like a heart-warming hearth fire. He was the walls of my sanctuary, the food for my eyes, the scent of a home. He was everything.”
― The Moon in the Palace
― The Moon in the Palace
“I knew now: love and destiny were two wild horses that could not be curbed. They galloped in different directions and ran down different paths where streams of desire and hope would not converge. To follow one was to betray the other. To make one happy was to break the other's heart. Yet I supposed that was part of life, a lesson we had to learn. To grow up was also to give up, and to build the future was to dissolve the past. The only thing we could do was hope for the best, to believe that the horse we chose would find us a safe destination.”
― The Moon in the Palace
― The Moon in the Palace
“Could I fight against rumor? I did not think so, for rumor had no grave and only bore seeds. It germinated in the air, thrived in the sun, and ripened in the shadows. It would not die in the rain and fly only higher in the wind.”
― The Empress of Bright Moon
― The Empress of Bright Moon
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