Fragrant Harbor - Couverture rigide

Lanchester, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0399148663 ISBN 13 : 9780399148668

Editeur : Putnam Pub Group, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Lanchester John

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Fragrant Harbour is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia’s last 70 years. Tom Stewart leaves England just before it is hit by the Great Depression to seek his fortune, and finds it in running Hong Kong’s best hotel. Sister Maria is a beautiful and uncompromising Chinese nun whom Stewart meets on the boat out from England; their friendship spans decades and changes both their lives. Dawn Stone is an English journalist who becomes the public face of money and power and big business. Matthew Ho is a young Chinese entrepreneur whose life has been shaped by painful choices made long before his birth, and who is now facing his own difficulties, and opportunities, in the twenty-first century.

The complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the horrors of the Japanese occupation during the Second World War; the post-war boom and transformation of Hong Kong into a laboratory of capitalism at its most cut-throat; the growth of the Triads; the handover of the city to the Chinese – all these are present in Fragrant Harbour, an epic novel of one of the world’s great cities. The novel’s shape and scale, its emotional power and beauty, make it John Lanchester’s finest book to date.

From the Hardcover edition.

Revue de presse

"An ambitious novel . . . Mr. Lanchester succeeds in fusing the epic with the individual." (The New York Times)

"A lovely, intelligent, and beguiling book." (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World)

"Lanchester makes Hong Kong so fascinating. What he has to say about the city is complex and thoughtful and has all the makings of a great, epic story." (San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Putnam Pub Group
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0399148663
• ISBN 13: 9780399148668
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 342
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible