{"product_id":"riding-the-tiger-milena-banks-9781475956375","title":"Riding the Tiger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Debut novelist Banks crafts a sweeping tale of seduction, betrayal and war...(her) evocative prose is impressive throughout....Banks delivers an engaging tale of forgiveness and the strength of familial ties, even when those ties have been frayed almost to extinction. A spectacular novel of colonial China that should put this first-time author on the map.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRiding the Tiger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the turbulent years of the late 1930s on the China coast, Jack, a powerful foreign business tycoon, and Ana, a sensual and deep Russian jazz singer--meet as strangers and part as lovers on the night Shanghai burns and falls to the Japanese. And then Ana simply ... vanishes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBesotted, Jack returns to Hong Kong determined to find Ana. He must hide his anguish from his fiancée, Violet, a beautiful and paranoid Hong Kong socialite, as she begins her lavish wedding plans. As the Japanese army advances, a tragedy unfolds, encompassing the passion and destruction of humans clinging to their dreams as the only world they know changes around them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHalf a century later, a young woman lives with a hidden shame. Jardine Woo is a modern Chinese girl who makes a living jumping out of party cakes, but under her cheerful exterior lies a secret: her mother was a Jane Doe, struck dead on a Hong Kong street nearly thirty years earlier, her infant daughter in her arms. Grown up now, Jardine has adjusted to life with no family--or so she thinks. Then, the extraordinary occurs, and her world will change in the blink of an eye. Algernon Worthing, an Englishman on his deathbed, claims not only that he knows her, but also that she is inextricably connected to a long-hidden crime that occurred before she was even born.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Milena Banks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1475956371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781475956375\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 532\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.07d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2013 pg. 135\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Best Indie Books\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2013 pg. 5","brand":"Milena Banks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45980827353343,"sku":"9781475956375","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b0c2721f-c269-444e-b559-f69d06518f03.jpg?v=1722416852","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/riding-the-tiger-milena-banks-9781475956375","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}