{"description":"Rachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool, unemotional woman with a drawling Viennese-Californian accent and a cigarette in her hand.\nBut in her will she left her niece an intricately carved Chinese box. Inside the box were photographs, letters and documents that led Rachel to uncover a story she had never known: that of a passionate Jewish teenager caught up by war, and forced to flee elegant Vienna for Shanghai. Set against a backdrop of the war in the Far East, The Box with the Sunflower Clasp is a sweeping family memoir that tells the hidden history of the Jews of Shanghai. In conversation with Endless Flight author Keiron Pim.\nBuy a copy of The Box with the Sunflower Clasp by Rachel Meller","height":1080,"html":"<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe src=\"https://skiv.com/embed/Uwjc5kB\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"fullscreen\" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>","provider_name":"Skiv","provider_url":"https://skiv.com","thumbnail_height":198,"thumbnail_url":"https://cdn.skiv.com/u/MkG8VMM/8890929699f5960ba0a28ec9c8efeec082ce23fb6ca481bea6e068c73426224b2/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg","thumbnail_width":352,"title":"The Box with the Sunflower Clasp","type":"video","url":"https://skiv.com/v/Uwjc5kB","version":"1.0","width":1920}