China: An Epic Novel - Couverture rigide

Rutherfurd, Edward

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1444787837 ISBN 13 : 9781444787832

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton, 2021

Synopsis

The International bestselling novel that is an unforgettable, sweeping tale of nineteenth-century China.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edward Rutherfurd was born in England, in the cathedral city of Salisbury. Educated at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write SARUM, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area around the ancient monument of Stonehenge, and Salisbury. Four years later, when the book was published, it became an instant international bestseller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Since then he has written seven more bestsellers.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Praise for Edward Rutherfurd
on PARIS 'Rutherfurd proves his real knack is with history, in detail and sweeping overviews alike, to give genuinely fascinating re-creations of Parisian life through the ages' Daily Mail,
on SARUM 'From the ice-age to the present day, Rutherfurd's scope is vast. Both historical novel and adventure epic, this is a work of universal appeal' Kirkus
on LONDON 'Hold your breath suspense, buccaneering adventure, and passionate tales of love and war' The Times

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

China, the Nineteenth Century: a vast, ancient empire closed to foreigners. Opium is the key for John Trader and his fellow Western adventurers: if he can sell his opium it will bring silver, and the silver will buy him the tea that will make him an unimaginable fortune back home and win him the love of his life. As China sinks into a miasma of addiction, good men try to save the Empire from foreign control, but battles, betrayals and tragedy follow and China is crushed by Western arms.
In the next sixty years the Empire's decline accelerates. This is the story of the men and women who rose to fortune and power from total anonymity in this time: Mei-Ling, the humble village woman who will become a mandarin's concubine; the Empress Dowager Cixi who seizes the throne as weak Emperors crumble before the foreigners; Lacquer Nail, the eunuch who loves her but will see his believed Summer Palace burned; Guanji the heroic Bannerman fighting the Taiping as their revolt rages across the great river valleys and cities of the endless land; Shi-Rong whose Confucian ideals are snuffed out and then reignited in the cauldron.
And, at the last, as the century dies, the Boxers rise with their insatiable hatred of the foreign imperialists. And here, at the end of his life, John Trader returns to Beijing. He has sacrificed much for his vast fortune. Now it's time to redress the wrongs of the past and, perhaps, to save the last person dear to him.
This is an unforgettable, sweeping tale of nineteenth-century China told from both sides of the divide. It is a feat of the imagination that shows us how things once were, and how modern China emerged from the following 120 years of revolution and rebirth.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1444787837
• ISBN 13: 9781444787832
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 784
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible