A Single Swallow - Zhang Ling, Shelly Bryant (Translator)
Zhang Ling, Shelly Bryant (Translator)
Category: Novel
Narrator: Adam Verner
Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Adults, Fantasy
The eagerly awaited English translation of award-winning author Zhang Lings epic and intimate novel about the devastation of war, forgiveness, redemption, and the enduring power of love., On the day of the historic 1945 Jewel Voice Broadcast - in which Emperor Hirohito announced Japans surrender to the Allied forces, bringing an end to World War II - three men, flush with jubilation, made a pact. After their deaths, each year on the anniversary of the broadcast, their souls would return to the Chinese village of their younger days. Its where they had fought - and survived - a war that shook the world and changed their own lives in unimaginable ways. Now, seventy years later, the pledge is being fulfilled by American missionary Pastor Billy, brash gunners mate Ian Ferguson, and local soldier Liu Zhaohu., All thats missing is Ah Yan - also known as Swallow - the girl each man loved, each in his own profound way., As they unravel their personal stories of the war, and of the woman who tou
