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Fragrant Harbor Hardback - 2002
by Lanchester, John
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It is 1935 and Tom Stewart, a young Englishman with an almost visceral longing for adventure, has bought himself a cheap ticket to the complex, corrupt, and corrupting world of Hong Kong. Aboard ship, he becomes the pawn in a wager between a bluff businessman and a Chinese missionary nun, who bets she can teach him Cantonese on the six-week voyage out. What begins as friendship turns into solace and then a passion that only individual vows can remit.Fragrant Harbor takes the reader from the intrigue and double-dealing of the 1930s through the savagery of the Japanese occupation to contemporary Hong Kong, crossroads of international trade and finance and waystation for laundering the dirty money of warlords, drug runners, and Chinese triads. The novel ends three years after the Mainland takeover, with Hong Kong as greedy, corrupt, and corrupting as when Stewart first landed there. Writing with the same fine style and observant eye that distinguished his previous novels, John Lanchester depicts a tumultuous time and place and then peoples it with extraordinary characters. The result is a novel that proves he is amongour most versatile and talented contemporary novelists-indeed, as The New York Times wrote, "Lanchester is a commanding writer."
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Details
- Title Fragrant Harbor
- Author Lanchester, John
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very good
- Pages 342
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Publication date 2002-07-08
- Bookseller's Inventory # 3940989-6
- ISBN 9780399148668 / 0399148663
- Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.24 x 1.16 in (23.52 x 15.85 x 2.95 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Love stories
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001057876
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 1
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