Fragrant Harbor
It is 1935, and Tom Stewart, a young Englishman with a longing for adventure, buys himself a cheap ticket aboard the SS Darjeeling-en route to the complex and corrupt world of Hong Kong. A shipboard wager leads to an unlikely friendship that spans seven decades as Hong Kong endures the savagery...
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It is 1935, and Tom Stewart, a young Englishman with a longing for adventure, buys himself a cheap ticket aboard the SS Darjeeling-en route to the complex and corrupt world of Hong Kong. A shipboard wager leads to an unlikely friendship that spans seven decades as Hong Kong endures the savagery of the Japanese occupation, emerging as a crossroads of international finance and the nexus of a world of warlords, drug runners, and Chinese triads.Author Biography: John Lanchester is the author of The Debt to Pleasure (winner of the Whitbread and Hawthornden prizes) and Mr. Phillips.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780399148668 (0399148663)
Publish date: July 8th 2002
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Pages no: 342
Edition language: English
Too bland and regular for me. I admit, my tastes run more to the dark and intemperate. I do not know, again, what I was thinking by reserving this title from my local library. I have been disappointed in books more this week than any previous to my memory.