When The Americans Came

When the Americans CameDr. Rokoff had not expected anyone that afternoon--his few remaining patients came at fixed intervals--and the prolonged ringing at the door of his one-room office and home seeped into his dream as part of the clamor that had come over Shanghai in the month or so since the end of the war. He saw himself, in this dream, at a soiree at the czarist officers' club, perusing one of the local English-language newspapers with the help of his pocket dictionary. The newspaper refer...