Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.
The rules are:
- Grab your current read.
- Open to a random page.
- Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page.
- Be careful not to include spoilers!
- Share the title & author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesday participiants can add the book to their to be read lists if they like your teasers!
I'm reading two novels at the moment, and alterating between the two every 40-50 pages or so. One of the novels is Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner and the other is Farewell, Shanghai by Angel Wagenstein. I'm most probably going to review both novels later, but let's start with a little teaser from Farewell, Shanghai:"While the Haydn symphony was pouring out its light and tender "farewell," the last of the naive also saying farewell to their comfortable illusions about good old Germany -this winter's tale that, in just a few weeks or so, would kick out like dirty kittens the Nazi bums who had just by chance grabbed hold of power.
For it was on exactly this night -the evening of November 10, 1938, Wednesday going on Thursday- that history would bestow the name Krystallnacht -"The Night of Broken Glass"- and this referred not to the chrystal chandeliers of the Dresden Konzerthaus, but to the crystal tinkling of broken Jewish shop windows."
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