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Published: 18/03/2021
Forbidden love blossoms in San Francisco's Chinatown in this powerful 1950s-set novel recounting a lesbian affair amidst 'Red-Scare' racism and post-war prejudice.
Winner of the National Book Award for Young Adult Literature
From the award-winning author of Ash comes a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1950s.
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.
America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father - despite his hard-won citizenship - Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781529366587
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 292 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 30 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Lo's writing, restrained yet luscious, shimmers with the thrills of youthful desire. A lovely, memorable novel about listening to the whispers of a wayward heart and claiming a place in the world - Sarah Waters
Exquisite and heart-shattering, Last Night at the Telegraph Club made me ache with wishing. This book is for anyone who has ever loved-in any sense of the word - Emily X.R. Pan
Oh, what a wonderful novel this is! For all who ever dared to want more, much more, from life - a beautifully sensitive love story, with telling historic detail - Susan Elia MacNeal
Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club is an instant classic, the finest LGBTQIA+ romance I've read in ages. Lo has lovingly re-created 1950s San Francisco and made me feel as though I'd lived there, and her depiction of first love felt so real that I experienced it in long-since-forgotten corners of my own heart - Bill Konigsberg
A beautifully observed story about finding love and fighting for one's identity against tremendous odds. In bringing a fascinating chapter of history to vivid life, this novel illuminates a path to the future through a careful understanding of our past. It's vivid, emotional, and hopeful. I loved it - Abdi Nazemian
Beautifully written historical fiction about giddy, queer first love. - Kirkus
deftly realised tale . . . a perfect romance and drama for the summer - the National
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“Brilliant!”
Cute love story but also talks about how being gay was seen in that area especially for a Chinese-American like Lily
“This got me back into reading”
I think this book will forever be one of my favourites. It has fantastic character development and the loveliest love story, but also focuses heavily on important topics eg. Sexuality and ethnicity. A lovely read!
“How many emotions can I feel for one beautiful book?”
I will never stop recommending this book and the pure depiction of young love in a society where that love can't happen.
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