Fragrant Harbour - Couverture rigide

Lanchester, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0571201768 ISBN 13 : 9780571201761

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2002

Synopsis

Fragrant Harbouris the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last seventy 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 novel's shape and scale, its emotional power and beauty, make it John Lancaster's finest book to date.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Lanchester was born in 1962 in Hamburg. Before turning to fiction, he led a varied career as a football reporter, obituary writer, book editor, restaurant critic, and deputy editor of the London Review of Books, where his pieces still occasionally appear. He has also contributed to Granta, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker.His first novel, The Debt to Pleasure, appeared in 1996. Translated into twenty-two languages, it won four literary awards (including the coveted Whitbread First Novel Award and Hawthornden), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award (the only American book prize then open to a non-North American), shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize. It appeared on bestseller lists around the country, and also made many of the annual notable book lists.John Lanchester's second novel, Mr Phillips

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571201768
• ISBN 13: 9780571201761
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible