The Yellow Emperor's Cure - Couverture souple

Basu, Kunal

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0715645420 ISBN 13 : 9780715645420

Editeur : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2013

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Lisbon, 1898: philandering surgeon Antonio Maria discovers his father is dying of syphilis, scourge of both rich and poor. Desperate to find a cure, he sets sail for Peking. But Antonio encounters the alluring Fumi, and finds a woman he cannot leave behind. As he wrestles with his disbelief in irrational Chinese views about illness, and helplessly falls into an erotic obsession with Fumi, violence breaks out across China. Antonio must decide whether to flee or stay in China and discover for himself if the cure he has been chasing is merely a myth.

Revue de presse

Basu keeps us intrigued by his hero and by the exotic world that creates and destroys him --The Sunday Times

Febrile, fast-moving, violent and occasionally gruesome, The Yellow Emperor's Cure is as morbidly fascinating as the disease on which it is predicated --TLS

'A wonderful and compellingly visual novel, whose world is as completely realised as anything by Robert Graves, Amitav Ghosh or Barry Unsworth' --William Dalrymple

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0715645420
• ISBN 13: 9780715645420
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible