![]() ![]() ![]() As the heir to the Scarlet gang, Juliette embodies that choice in a myriad of ways. ![]() It frames life as a ruthless criminal as a choice between damnation or starvation. Like the BBC hit, this novel captures the grit, classism, and racism that defines gangster tales of this era. A trained killer, she makes Thomas Shelby of Peaky Blinders look like a timid schoolboy. An interloper, a foreign menace, leaves them to writhe near the Huangpu River.Īs the body count rises, Gong’s heroine, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, is tasked with solving these murders. Fittingly, Gong opens her tale with gangsters bleeding to death in those streets but not by own their hands. Bankers, foreigners, gangsters, and simmering political unrest fill the city’s streets. Gross, violent, beautiful, and poetic, Chloe Gong’s reimagined tale of Shakespeare’s two star-crossed lovers features the city of Shanghai in the 1920s as a central character. ![]()
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